Lake Tahoe Basin Mangement Unit (USDA)
Welcome to the Lake Tahoe Basin — a beautiful land of high peaks, broad valleys, shady forests, and delicate meadows surrounding the largest high–altitude lake in North America, Lake Tahoe. With miles of shoreline, excellent hiking trails, superb skiing, and world-class resort facilities, the Lake Tahoe Basin offers something for everyone.
The Forest Service established the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in 1973 to protect Lake Tahoe's water quality by specially managing the National Forest Lands in the Basin surrounding the Lake. Lake Tahoe is the largest high-altitude lake of its size in the United States, with an average surface elevation of 6,225'. The lake's shoreline is 72 miles long. The lake itself is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide.
Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit provides information on dog regulations, fire safety, landscape formation, points of interest, frequently asked questions, Native American and pioneer history, heritage resource etiquette, wilderness etiquette, recreation activities, trail systems, and mountain safety. Also included are a table of Forest Service Recreation Sites, an Index to Topographic Maps (7.5' series), and an inset map of the Pope-Baldwin Recreation Area. The map also displays color photographs of points of interest and activities.
The map shows the Lake Tahoe Management Unit, national forest, ranger district, state, county, recreation restriction, special area, wildlife management area, and wilderness boundaries; primary highways, secondary highways, national scenic byways, light duty paved roads, light duty gravel roads, light duty dirt roads, unimproved roads, unimproved roads suitable for high clearance vehicles, designated off-highway vehicle routes, Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and Tahoe Rim Trail, maintained trails, and designated motorcycle trails; railroads; power transmission lines; ski lifts; township and section lines; fire reporting stations, forest headquarters, ranger district offices, forest service fire stations, and other forest service facilities; located or landmark objects; schools, churches, or other buildings; locked gates; springs and falls; commercial resorts; national forest campgrounds, non-national forest campgrounds, group campgrounds, and undeveloped campsites; national forest picnic areas and non-national forest picnic areas; information, visitor centers, and public telephones; trailhead parking, non-trailhead parking, and OHV staging areas; points of interest, historical sites, scenic views, and watchable wildlife; boat ramps, lake access, and pack animal stations; winter recreation areas, avalanche control areas, downhill skiing areas, and cross country skiing areas; and surface management for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, National Forest Wilderness Area, Forest Land administered by other National Forests, Bureau of Land Management, State land, Native American land, other federal land, and residential and associated development land.
The map covers the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the Tahoe National Forest, El Dorado National Forest, and Toiyabe National Forest on both sides of the California-Nevada border, and the scale is generally ˝ inch per mile (1:126,720).
Two-sided, self-cover, paper map.
Scale: 1:126,720
Size:
4” x 9” folded24” x 36” unfolded
Price: $17.95
Ships Immediately.
Part # 40408
