Festival highlights include lively discussion panels with the guest stars, film historians and stunt people. Also high on the visitor's list are the arts and crafts shows in the Park, the deep-pit barbecues and the live Friday night concerts (Eddie Dean, Rex Alen, Dusty Rogers and the Sons of the San Joaquin have performed here). And you can enjoy horseback and wagon rides along movie trails and the hour-plus guided bus tours of actual movie locations out in the Movie Rocks, not to mention the almost continuous movies -- movies that were made here in Lone Pine.

 Over the years, the festival has featured tributes to John Wayne, Gene Autre, Hopalong Cassidy, Tim Holt and the Lone Ranger. Guests have included Gregory Peck, Ernest Bognine, Clayton Moore, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, George Montgomery, Virginia Mayo, Iron Eyes Cody, Richard Farnsworth, Harry Carey Jr., Ann Rutherford, John Agar, Pat Buttram, Dick Jones, Vera Ralston, Peggy Stewart, Ruth Terry, Montie Montana, Mrs. Grace Bradley Boyd (widow of actor William Boyd who played "Hoppy"), Pilar (Mrs. John) Wayne, Mrs. Tim Holt, stunt men Loren Janes and Henry Wills, writer-director Burt Kennedy and directors Budd Boetticher and William Whitney. And the year we honored our hallmark film, "Gunga Din", co-star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("Sergeant Ballantine" himself) returned to Lone Pine to be Grand Marshal of the annual Sunday parade.