Recreation Guides

Explore Lake Tahoe in its winter glory with this guide to 65 snowshoe trips. This updated 2nd edition contains 20 new trips, and covers Lake Tahoe, Mt. Rose, Carson Pass, Fallen Leaf Lake, Highway 89, and Old Donner Pass Road. Includes routefinding techniques, potential hazards, difficulty ratings, and elevation change, photos, topographic maps, and places to go after your trek for a hot drink or a cozy night's stay.

The best-selling Tahoe Rim Trail guidebook has been revised to reflect the latest conditions and routing of the trail, including the new Mt. Rose trailhead. Updated topographic maps by noted cartographer Tom Harrison depict the entire route in eight separate segments. Along with the easy (and fun) to read trail directions, the book includes fascinating information on the plants and animals you'll see along the trail, plus essential advice for planning a hike on the TRT, whether it's a day's outing or a 2-week circuit of the entire lake. The first and only how-to guide to this popular trail, it is the official guidebook of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, whose mission is to improve, maintain and promote the trail.

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

California outdoors expert Ann Marie Brown provides the essential details needed to discover all of the can't-miss sights, attractions, and restaurants in and around Tahoe. Find the best slopes at Squaw Valley, hibernate in a cozy South Shore cabin, dine in Tahoe City, or hike the Tahoe Rim Trail.

Covering the region surrounding the 22-mile long lake, author Jordan Summers guides hikers along 40 of the region's best trails - all located within 25 miles of Lake Tahoe's shoreline. Trekkers can easily find the perfect hike with the complete trail descriptions for 27 dayhike and 13 overnight destinations. An accurate map, directions to the trailhead with coordinates for GPS use, and an elevation profile of each trail prepare hikers with the full picture of the route ahead. Generally intended for outdoors-people of all ages and abilities, Five-Star Trails around Lake Tahoe describes great hikes from the Desolation, Mt. Rose, Granite Chief, and Mokelumne Wilderness areas and along sections of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and portions of the Tahoe Rim Trail. While ranging across forest- and granite-covered terrain to over a dozen peaks and several dozen lakes, hike profiles include details on natural history, geologic features, and places of historic note. With Five-Star Trails around Lake Tahoe , hikers will follow in the footsteps of pioneers such as Kit Carson and the historic Donner Party along the Pony Express Trail and the Emigrant Trail, often with stunning vistas of Lake Tahoe, Emerald Bay, Fallen Leaf Lake, or the Crystal Range.