Loop 1 · 4 h window · 96 mi
4 h loop · 2 stops · back by 12:59 PM. Incorporates Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive.
- Nevada State Railroad Museum · 60 min
- Zephyr Cove Beach · 10 min
Destinations · California
Homewood
CA · 39.0869, -120.1603
Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive and Mount Rose Highway are signed byways within 30 miles of Homewood, California.
Get in
Homewood is easily reached by car from Tahoe City and Truckee by driving south along the Truckee River and then the west shore of the Lake on State Route 89. From further a field it can be reached from both Reno and the San Francisco Bay Area along interstate 80, and then by following State Route 89 South.
Day-trip loops
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 2 · 8 h window · 226 mi
7 h 52 loop · 7 stops · back by 4:52 PM. Incorporates Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive.
- Balancing Rock · 10 min
- Inspiration Point · 15 min
- Tallac Historic Site · 10 min
- Pacific Grade Summit · 15 min
- Deer Peak · 15 min
- Ebbetts Peak · 15 min
- Republic of Molossia · 10 min
Touches Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, Mount Rose Highway
How long is a scenic day-trip loop from Homewood?
Byway's engine bakes two loops from Homewood: 4 h, 96 miles, 2 stops; and 8 h, 226 miles, 7 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
What is there to stop at on a day trip from Homewood?
The 8 h loop stops at Balancing Rock, Inspiration Point, Tallac Historic Site, Pacific Grade Summit, Deer Peak, Ebbetts Peak and Republic of Molossia. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive · 12 mi · national
- Mount Rose Highway · 15 mi
Public land
- Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit · inside
- Tahoe National Forest · 3 mi
- Eldorado National Forest · 4 mi
- Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · 14 mi
Campgrounds
- Kaspian Campground · 2 mi
- Noonchester 14N34A · 2 mi
- Buck Lake Road 14N40 · 3 mi
- Meeks Bay Campground · 4 mi
- Meeks Bay Resort · 4 mi
- William Kent Campground · 4 mi
- Pleasant Campground · 9 mi
- Bayview Trailhead and Day-Use Area · 10 mi
Lookouts
- Cave Rock · 12 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 12 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 15 mi
- Scenic lookout · 17 mi
Named places
- Eagle Rock · 2 mi
- Kailua Park · 2 mi
- Blackwood Ridge · 2 mi
- Kaspian Day Use Area · 2 mi
- Knee Ridge · 2 mi
- Ellis Peak · 2 mi
- Ward Creek · 3 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park · 3 mi
A day out of Homewood, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Lake Tahoe · 6 mi
- Tahoe City · 6 mi
- Bliss State Park · 8 mi
- Olympic Valley · 9 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 13 mi
- Incline Village · 15 mi