Wat er het hele jaar speelt in South Lake Tahoe, Verenigde Staten

Topdrukte — Ski season, Winter / Christmas break in Verenigde Staten

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Chain controls on the passes (15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)), Ski season (20 nov – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — Ski season

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Chain controls on the passes (15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)), Ski season (20 nov – 15 apr (meestal))

Topdrukte — Ski season, Spring break in Verenigde Staten

In maart begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Chain controls on the passes (15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)), Ski season (20 nov – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — Ski season

In april begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Chain controls on the passes (15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)), Ski season (20 nov – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — Memorial Day weekend

• Feestdag

  Memorial Day weekend

  23–25 meiNationale feestdagDrukBoek vroeg

  Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, opens the summer travel season: over the long weekend campsites and lodging book out, roads are slow, and parking at the most popular spots fills early in the day. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Summer peak, Summer break in Verenigde Staten

• Feestdag

  Summer peak

  20 jun – 7 sepSchoolvakantiesDrukBoek vroeg

  The Bay Area empties up here at weekends from late June, and the two-lane road round the west shore to Emerald Bay is the pinch point. Parking at the popular beaches is gone by nine. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Summer peak, Lights on the Lake fireworks

• Festival

  Lights on the Lake fireworks

  3–5 julLicht & vuurDrukBoek vroeg

  Barge fireworks off the south shore on the fourth, watched from boats and from the beach at Nevada Beach. It is the single busiest night of the summer and the road out afterwards proves it. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Fourth of July in the mountains

  3–5 julNationale feestdagDrukBoek vroeg

  The Fourth of July weekend is one of the busiest of the mountain summer: lodging and campsites book out and roads into town are slow. Fireworks are often cancelled or replaced by drone shows when wildfire danger runs high. Bron ↗

• Seizoen

  Lake warm enough to swim

  10 jul – 10 sep · meestalZee op temperatuur

  The lake is 500 metres deep and never really warms, but the shallow bays at Baldwin and Zephyr Cove get tolerable for about eight weeks from mid-July. Everywhere else is a quick, cold swim.

• Risico

  Wildfire smoke season

  15 jul – 30 sep · meestal

  Smoke from California fires settles in the basin and stays because the mountains hold it, and a fire reached the edge of town in 2021. Some late summers the far shore is invisible for a week. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Summer peak (20 jun – 7 sep)

Topdrukte — Summer peak, Summer break in Verenigde Staten

• Feestdag

  Labor Day weekend

  5–7 sepNationale feestdagDrukBoek vroeg

  Labor Day, the first Monday of September, is the last big getaway of summer: the long weekend books out campsites and lodging and fills parking early, and families thin out quickly once it has passed. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Summer peak (20 jun – 7 sep), Lake warm enough to swim (10 jul – 10 sep (meestal)), Wildfire smoke season (15 jul – 30 sep (meestal))

Topdrukte — Summer peak, Labor Day weekend

• Natuur

  Hope Valley aspens

  25 sep – 15 okt · meestalHerfstkleuren

  The aspen stands in Hope Valley south of the lake turn in the first ten days of October, and the pass roads over Carson and Luther are the drive for it before the snow shuts them.

Nog steeds bezig: Summer peak (20 jun – 7 sep), Lake warm enough to swim (10 jul – 10 sep (meestal)), Wildfire smoke season (15 jul – 30 sep (meestal)), Labor Day weekend (5–7 sep)

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In oktober begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Hope Valley aspens (25 sep – 15 okt (meestal))

Topdrukte — Ski season, Thanksgiving break in Verenigde Staten

• Risico

  Chain controls on the passes

  15 nov – 15 apr · meestalWegafsluitingen in de winterSluitingen

  Sierra storms drop feet rather than inches, and Highway 50 over Echo Summit and the interstate over Donner go to chains or close outright. Arriving the day after a storm is the plan; during one is not. Bron ↗

• Seizoen

  Ski season

  20 nov – 15 apr · meestalDruk

  Heavenly runs from the edge of town up onto the ridge between two states, usually from late November into April. A big Sierra winter keeps the upper mountain going weeks past that. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Ski season, Winter / Christmas break in Verenigde Staten

In december begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Chain controls on the passes (15 nov – 15 apr (meestal)), Ski season (20 nov – 15 apr (meestal))