Mammoth is mainly three or four main roads: Main Street, Old Mammoth Road,  Meridian Blvd., Minaret Road, and Lake Mary Road.1

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Main Street (Hwy 203) – from US-395 heads straight through town and becomes Lake Mary Rd, where you turn up to Mountainback. But back in town it has shops, outlet stores, restaurants, and a liquor/grocery store or two. Notable are the sporting goods stores, Schatt’s Bakery, and the Forest Service Park Headquarters and campgrounds.

Old Mammoth Road (north-south)– leads from Main Street, the Shell gas station and Footloose Sporting Goods through a neighborhood of good restaurants and shopping malls to Meridian Blvd, where Vons Supermarket and the shopping mall are. It then continues out into the Mammoth Creek Meadows, Snow Creek golf course and other housing and condo developments. In summer you can follow it all the way up, through the old original silver mining site of Mammoth, to Lake Mary Road.

Vons is the only large supermarket and it is located in Mamoth’s largest shopping mall. The town’s Cinemas are here as well as hair cuts, a fun pet shop and gift shop. There’s a bank on the corner, real estate offices, Dominoes Pizza, a Church, Carl’s Junior, Starbucks… but Von’s is sort of the center of town for groceries. There is also a relatively new Alternative/Whole Foods store and Schatts Bakery makes fantastic bread and pastries. The New Village has resort stores as well as a small General Store.

Meridian Boulevard (east-west) – begins down near US 395 where it turns off of Main Street (Hwy 203). It makes a good alternate route in and out of town, not that there is ever much traffic on Main Street. It crosses Old Mammoth Rd. at Vons Supermarket and the shopping mall, making it the center of town. There are recycling cans located along Meridian at bus stops, if you want to toss your bottles and cans. Meridian heads all the way up to Mammoth’s eastern-most Eagle Lodge and Chair 15.

Minaret Road (north-south) – crosses Main St., as you are heading up to Mountainback from town. To the right it leads up past the new Village, four miles to the Main Ski Lodge and the Mammoth Mountain Inn; to the left it heads down to Mammoth Creek Meadows and Old Mammoth Road, passing close to Eagle Lodge on Meridian and Chair 15. (Minaret Rd. is also the continuation of Hwy 203 (aka Main St.) and it continues from the Main Lodge down to Red Meadows and Devils Postpone in summer.)

The new Village is the new center of life in Mammoth. It was an Intrawest project, a “vibrant pedestrian village” by the same people who have developed Whistler, Copper, Steamboat, and the Village at Squaw Valley. Besides shops and Starbucks it has several fine restaurants, the Mariott Hotel, condos, and the Four Seasons Hotel.  The Village Gondola connects the Village with Canyon Lodge and is free to ride, but hours are limited.

Lake Mary Road – Main Street becomes Lake Mary Rd. when it crosses Minaret Road. The turnoff to Canyon Lodge and Mountainback is just 1/4 mile up. Beyond this, Lake Mary Road takes you up to the many lakes of Mammoth. In summer the road is busy with campers and hikers and bikers and bears; in winter it is open only two miles, up as far as the Tamarack Lodge at Twin Lakes and their wonderful Lakeside Restaurant. Tamarack offers cross-country skiing in winter.