Category: Activities
Short Hikes to Lakes
Lakes by Elevation
Drive-Up Lakes
High Elevation Lakes (6,500 ft+)
Lakes 6,500 feet and above
Cook & Green PCT
Highway 96 at Seaid Valley to Oregon border
Sierra Highways and Passes
- Highway 80
- Sacramento to Truckee/Reno
- Tahoe National Forest
- Highway 50
- Echo Summit 7379ft
- Sacramento to Lake Tahoe
- Eldorado National Forest
- Highway 108
- Sonora Pass 9609ft
- Modesto/Pinecrest Lake
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Highway 49
- Highway 36
- Red Bluff to Chester/Lake Almanor
- Highway 70
- Oroville to Portola
- Highway 120
- Tioga Pass 9944ft
- Modesto to Yosemite to Mono Lake
- Yosemite National Park
- Highway 4
- Ebbetts Pass 8756ft
- Stockton to Markleeville
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Highway 88
- Yuba Pass 6800ft
- Stockton to Markleeville
- Caples Lake
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Highway 89
- Highway 178
- Bakersfield to Ridgecrest
- Sequoia National Forest
Best trail running areas for long distance hiking
- Russian Wilderness PCT
- Trinity Alps PCT
- Haypress Trail – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Marble Mountain PCT
- Mt Eddy PCT
- South Kelsey Trail – Siskiyou Wilderness
- English Peak – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Swift Creek Trail – Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Stuart Fork Trail – Trinity Alps Wilderness
Weeklong Trinity Alps Trips
- Caribou & Emerald/Sapphire Lakes
- Alpine, Smith, Emerald and Sapphire Lakes
- Papoose & Grizzly Lakes
- Trinity Alps PCT
Paynes & Albers Lakes – Russian Wilderness
- Music Creek Trailhead
- 4 hours driving time
- 7.5 miles roundtrip
- 3 miles to Payne’s Lake
- 0.5 miles to Albers Lake
- 0.25 miles to Upper Albers Lake
- Reach Big Blue Lake by cross country hiking to saddle above Upper Albers Lake