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Spooner Lake via Tahoe Rim Trail is a 3.7-mile out-and-back in Spooner Lake & Backcountry State Park near Glenbrook, NV. The route reaches Spooner Lake. It is mostly level, with 227 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi6,956 – 7,169 ft3.8 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Spooner Summit Trailhead 39.10454, -119.89692
Nearest town Glenbrook, NV

Directions

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Spooner Lake via Tahoe Rim Trail

3.7 mi · ▲ 227 ft · 1 hr 21 min

Elevation 6,957–7,170 ft

Out & Back · Spooner Lake & Backcountry State Park

Trailhead: Spooner Summit Trailhead · 39.10454, -119.89692

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:46 AM · sunset 7:01 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Tahoe Rim Trail, heading NW.
  2. 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  3. 1 miBear right, heading SW.
  4. 50 ftPass Spooner Lake.
  5. 0.2 miTurn right onto North Canyon Road, heading N.
  6. 0.6 miReach Spooner Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  7. 0.6 miTurn left, heading E.
  8. 0.2 miBear left, heading NE.
  9. 1 miTurn right onto Tahoe Rim Trail, heading NE.
  10. 150 ftArrive 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 7:01 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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