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Echo Lakes (ssss1)

Key Features

Top Trails books contain information about features for each trail. Though primarily a mountainous region, the Lake Tahoe Basin has such outstanding diversity that it offers at least a little of each feature, including sandy beaches. Lakes, streams, and waterfalls occur in abundance, as do high summits with spectacular vistas and rugged canyons. A plethora of verdant meadows are graced with scenic wildflower displays, and numerous aspen groves provide plenty of autumn color. All these features combine to make Lake Tahoe and the surrounding topography a photographer’s paradise. About the only feature that suffers in the Lake Tahoe region is solitude, due in some part to the abundance of these other attributes.

Multiple Uses

All the trails in this guide are suitable for hiking, with the exception of the Flume Trail (ssss1). Even though hikers are permitted to use it, the Flume Trail is so popular with mountain bikers that hikers should yield their rights to the two-wheeled crowd. Though all the trails are equally legal for runners, some have been determined impractical for such use.