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Lookout Point & Saddle is a 2.1-mile out-and-back in Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit near Brockway Vista, CA. The route reaches Lookout Point at the turnaround, 1 miles in. It climbs 948 ft, with sections as steep as 48% grade. It scores 2/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi6,546 – 7,340 ft · steepest grade: 48%2.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Beaver Street Extension 39.24330, -120.01494
Nearest town Brockway Vista, CA

Directions

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Lookout Point & Saddle

2.1 mi · ▲ 948 ft · 1 hr 10 min

Elevation 6,544–7,341 ft

Out & Back · Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

Trailhead: Beaver Street Extension · 39.24330, -120.01494

Weather Sep 22: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 6:59 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading E.
  2. 0.4 miTurn right, heading E.
  3. 0.1 miSharp right, heading S.
  4. 350 ftBear left, heading S.
  5. 250 ftContinue straight onto Saddle, heading S.
  6. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Lookout Peak, heading S.
  7. 0.2 miReach Lookout Point, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 300 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  9. 0.8 miTurn left, heading N.
  10. 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

32% dirt68% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 6:59 PM

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