Brockway Summit was much easier, but must get there early to park. This is a very popular mountain bike staging area, since people like to ride to Watson Lake and back. The good trailer parking area is off Highway 267 just up the hill from the TRT at Mt Watson Road, where you would pull in for Robie Park.
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There is a small Sierra Pacific Industries building and area that is probably used for a site manager's trailer and other temporary structures when they have logging operations going in that land. Just take care if you use this area and respect SPI's property. You can see this area in the image below.
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Finally, we ended up at Tahoe City near highway 89. I brought the trailer to the Public Utility District office on Fairway Drive, which had a very large parking lot that was unused since the offices were closed for the weekend. It was close to trailhead, and there was plenty of untended grass that the horses could mow.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Trailer Parking for Kingsbury to Spooner Summit
Tracy did a great write up on the trail and the overall adventure, but I wanted to address trailer parking in detail. We left our trailer behind at the beginning of each ride and then called a taxi at to drive me back to the rig. Due to a poorly executed street fair that closed highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe we used North Shore Checker for both trips. Both their guys were great, and it all would have been fine if not for the traffic backups from the closure of 50.
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The above satellite view of Kingsbury North staging area should give you a good idea of the parking. It was in a residential area and most of the other vehicles there were accessing the OHV trails with their dirtbikes. We had room to park and it was pretty easy to get back out. The below image is the street view from where we parked. You can get an impression of the available spage to turn around.
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There is a steep grade on the road in and out of this area, but it was only a 100 yards or so.
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In the satellite view, you can see the large area where we parked overnight. Note that there is really only one way in and out of this area, and you do need to back your trailer down the hill and follow the dirt road west to get back onto 50. You can pan to the left on the map above and see how the road connects highway 50 at the "normal" TRT parking area. The median divider on 50 makes it impossible to go back out the way that you came in. You can click the arrows to pan around in the street view picture below:
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The above satellite view of Kingsbury North staging area should give you a good idea of the parking. It was in a residential area and most of the other vehicles there were accessing the OHV trails with their dirtbikes. We had room to park and it was pretty easy to get back out. The below image is the street view from where we parked. You can get an impression of the available spage to turn around.
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There is a steep grade on the road in and out of this area, but it was only a 100 yards or so.
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In the satellite view, you can see the large area where we parked overnight. Note that there is really only one way in and out of this area, and you do need to back your trailer down the hill and follow the dirt road west to get back onto 50. You can pan to the left on the map above and see how the road connects highway 50 at the "normal" TRT parking area. The median divider on 50 makes it impossible to go back out the way that you came in. You can click the arrows to pan around in the street view picture below:
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