Except for the Sierra Nevada immediately to the west, Mono Lake is surrounded by a volcanic landscape. The Bodie Hills to the north and the Cowtrack Mountains to the East of the lake do not look much like volcanoes today, but they are remnants of an earlier volcanic era that predated the existence of Mono Lake hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago. The Mono Craters, stretching to the south of Mono erupted recently in geologic time and are the some of the more obvious volcanic features at Mono Lake along with Black Point and the Negit Island volcanoes.