What you’ll see: You can extend your Sunday Drive to an overnight experience at Caples Lake and the Carson Pass area on Highway 88 in the high Sierra Nevada. Cabins and great trout fishing are ...

Caples Lake is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, between Kit Carson Pass and the Kirkwood Ski Resort. It is about 50 miles south of Carson City, via a combination of U.S. 395, Nev. S.R. 88 and ...

One of the amazing attributes of the high Sierra is the opportunity to discover a drive-to campsite that is close to a major thoroughfare, yet gives you the feeling of being quite a ways out there.

The Sierra has an abundance of places to enjoy the water besides the obvious choice of Lake Tahoe. The region is dotted with alpine lakes that, like Tahoe, have clear blue water and stunning vistas, ...