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Old Mount Rose Highway is a 4.8-mile out-and-back in Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit near Incline Village, NV. It climbs 1,095 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi7,130 – 7,766 ft · steepest grade: 21%5.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.27211, -119.95231
Nearest town Incline Village, NV

Directions

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Old Mount Rose Highway

4.8 mi · ▲ 1,095 ft · 2 hr 9 min

Elevation 7,130–7,766 ft

Out & Back · Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

Trailhead: 39.27211, -119.95231

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:46 AM · sunset 7:02 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading W.
  2. 0.4 miBear left, heading N.
  3. 50 ftBear right, heading N.
  4. 350 ftBear right, heading NE.
  5. 0.2 miTurn left, heading NE.
  6. 0.1 miSharp right, heading E.
  7. 50 ftBear right, heading E.
  8. 0.1 miBear right, heading NE.
  9. 150 ftTurn left onto Lunar, heading E.
  10. 50 ftBear right, heading E.
  11. 0.5 miBear right onto Old Mount Rose Highway, heading S.
  12. 0.6 miReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
  13. 0.4 miSharp right, heading N.
  14. 1.3 miTurn left, heading NW.
  15. 0.3 miSharp right onto Lunar, heading SW.
  16. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NW.
  17. 50 ftSharp left, heading S.
  18. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
  19. 0.2 miBear left, heading W.
  20. 350 ftBear left, heading NW.
  21. 50 ftBear right, heading NW.
  22. 0.3 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

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:46 AMSunset 7:02 PM

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