![]() ![]() The homes surrounding the lake range from supreme with docks and boats to tiny rustic cabins with wood burning fires. If you happen to be Stanford alumni, you can also stay at the Stanford Camp (it books out a year in advance). The only hotels near Fallen Leaf Lake are in South Lake Tahoe, but if you want the real experience, rent a home on the lake. VRBO and calling the Fallen Leaf General Store for home listings are your best bet. The homes around Fallen Leaf Lake don’t come up for rent often so do your research early. Pack your car up and go! The drive is about 3.5 to 4 hours from San Francisco. Trip type: Adult, Family, Group getaway, Beach, Mountainsįallen Leaf Lake is a secret gem nestled on the southwestern side of Lake Tahoe. ![]() More about your oliver guide: Sterling Boyd.Get in touch when it gets closer to your visit and I will provide some updates as to whether or not we have snow. Sorry for not being able to provide a more clear answer to your question, Karin, but activities are based on the weather and it’s hard to predict it that far out. So, check out the South and North Lake Tahoe Visitor Center websites for more diverse ideas than mine □ In between those activities, you can find me shoveling snow and publishing more articles and videos about cross-country skiing and snowshoeing □ And then on my days off, I cross-country ski in the backcountry. I live a pretty simple life in that all I do every winter is buy groceries and gas to fuel me and my Jeep so that I can go to my job (at a cross-country ski center where I work and xc ski). I don’t know if you have experience with snowshoes, but if not here’s an introductory article I wrote about it winter activity:Īs far as doing other winter activities at Tahoe, I’m not the best resource. Bring your own snowshoes or rent from a local shop in town. The deeper the snow, the greater the workout, however. They’re easy to use and allow you to travel in just about any snowy condition without knowing any special skills or techniques. That said, you could visit some of those hiking trails (and others) using snowshoes. Although there’s always the chance that there won’t be that much snow on the ground at lake level and you could probably walk around, there’ll most likely be patches of snow and ice that’ll prevent you from going too far (without foot traction devices, for example).Īgain, you’re talking about January in the mountains, so I would plan for snow. So I wouldn’t plan for traditional hiking in January. And we just received another 1-2 feet (depending on elevation/location) on January 16, 2020. This season (2019/20) we’ve had good snow for skiing since Thanksgiving. We’ve often had some drought winters in a row followed by massive snowfall winters. Winters have been up and down during during my 15 years of living at Tahoe. However, I wouldn’t necessarily plan on it. I can barely plan my life out a week in advance! hahaĭepending on weather conditions, some of the trails I have listed in the article might be possible to hike in January. And I applaud you on your advanced planning. Greetings from Athens, Tennessee – where one inch of snow would bring the entire county to a standstill. Well, thanks again, and if we really end up in Tahoe next January, I will try to hop by your workplace and say Hi. My husband is the only “real” American, and he is also the non-skier. (My daughter and her husband live in Austria, too. The reason why I try to plan ahead so far, is that my father turns 80 this June (my parents live in Austria), and my birthday present most likely will be 2 flight tickets from Austria to the US, and a week of winter vacation with my husband, my daughter, her husband and me in Tahoe. You helped me a lot with your descriptions. So before I moved to the US (15 years ago) I was frequently vacationing in the Austrian Alps (Lech/Arlberg, Kitzbuehl, Schladming, Saalbach), so from what you describe to me in your response to my question is pretty much the same than I was used to see there. I forgot to mention that I am Austrian, and so are 4 more people of the group of 6 I mentioned. Thank you so much for your detailed response about hiking in Tahoe in January. ![]()
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