Loop 1 · 4 h window · 109 mi
3 h 47 loop · 2 stops · back by 12:47 PM. Incorporates Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive.
- Nevada State Railroad Museum · 60 min
- Carson Raceway · 10 min
Destinations · California
Truckee
CA · 39.3261, -120.2106
From Truckee, California, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways, 5 public land units and 94 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Understand
Truckee began in 1863 as Gray's Station, named for Joseph Gray's Roadhouse on the Trans-Sierra wagon road. The Central Pacific Railroad selected Truckee as the name of its railroad station by August 1867, even though the tracks would not reach the station until 1868. It was renamed Truckee after a Paiute chief, whose assumed Paiute name was Tru-ki-zo. He was the father of Chief Winnemucca and grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca. The first Europeans who came to cross the Sierra Nevada encountered his tribe.
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 · 245 mi
7 h 58 loop · 8 stops · back by 4:57 PM. Incorporates Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive.
- Molossia's Friendship Gateway · 10 min
- Republic of Molossia · 10 min
- Pacific Grade Summit · 15 min
- Ebbetts Peak · 15 min
- Twin Peaks · 15 min
- Inspiration Point · 15 min
- Balancing Rock · 10 min
- Eagle Rock · 15 min
Touches Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, Mount Rose Highway
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive · 13 mi · national
- Mount Rose Highway · 14 mi
Public land
- Tahoe National Forest · inside
- Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit · 7 mi
- Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · 10 mi
- Eldorado National Forest · 17 mi
Campgrounds
- Granite Flat Campground · 2 mi
- Prosser Family Campground · 4 mi
- Prosser Pits OHV Area · 4 mi
- Yuba Pass Snowpark · 4 mi
- Goose Meadow Campground · 5 mi
- Lakeside Campground · 5 mi
- Prosser Ranch Group Campground · 5 mi
- Silver Creek Campground · 7 mi
Lookouts
- Scenic lookout · 16 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 17 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 23 mi
- Cave Rock · 24 mi
Named places
- Truckee-Donner Historical Society · 0 mi
- Pioneer Monument · 1 mi
- Donner Camp · 1 mi
- Schallenberger Cabin Site · 1 mi
- Donner Memorial State Park Museum · 1 mi
- Victory Highway Monument · 1 mi
- Old Jail Museum · 1 mi
- Truckee Railroad Museum · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Olympic Valley · 9 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 10 mi
- Tahoe City · 11 mi
- Incline Village · 14 mi
- Homewood · 17 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 19 mi