Tahoe Rim Trail: Tahoe City to Brockway
Tahoe City / Kings Beach, North Shore · near Tahoe City · Sierra Nevada / Yosemite
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- advanced
- Trail miles
- ~20.3 mi point-to-point; Watson Lake side-loops add more
- Elevation
- ~2,640ft gain / ~3,390ft loss riding north-to-south; tops ~8,150ft
- Best season
- July-October - snow lingers into early summer up top
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Mountain Biking detail
- Ride types
- all-mountain · xc · enduro
- Signature trails
- Watson Lake · Painted Rock climb · Descent to Tahoe City
- Ebike
- No
- Ebike note
- Human-powered only - USFS and the Tahoe Rim Trail Association prohibit e-bikes on this singletrack.
- Intl tip
- Ride Brockway Summit to Tahoe City for the net descent, start early to beat the thunderstorms, and carry extra water - the ridge is exposed with few sources.
The guide
This is the marquee bike-legal stretch of the Tahoe Rim Trail and one of the best big-day rides in the basin - roughly 20 miles…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Tahoe Rim Trail: Tahoe City to Brockway — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.166, -120.146