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A big climb or descent on the West Shore with forests, great views, and lung-busting sections.


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Map Key

6.1

Miles

9.8

KM

Singletrack

8,373' 2,552 m

High

6,470' 1,972 m

Low

2,099' 640 m

Up

217' 66 m

Down

7%

Avg Grade (4°)

27%

Max Grade (15°)

Dogs Off-leash

E-Bikes Not Allowed

Features Flow · Views

Need to Know

This trail is all thanks to the hard work of Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association (TAMBA) volunteers and support from the community. There are few opportunities to ride bike-optimized singletrack to a high Sierra mountain peak. This trail features flowy lines and banked in-sloped corners. We kept the grade relatively easy, since everything above 8,000' is difficult already. It took two years of volunteer building, over 2,400 volunteer hours, and 1,680 hours of grant-funded trail crews to reach the summit, and more work is on the way. Enjoy, and please support your local trail organization!

Description

Stanford Rock has been nearly a complete re-routed from its former degraded logging road. Between 2018 and 2021, TAMBA volunteers built several new miles of forest flow including a new trail to the summit (there was no official trail to the actual rock before). If you haven't ridden this trail since the re-routes, you need to check it out. What used to be a dusty, unrelenting road cut with unrideable sections is now a flowy bike-optimized trail with berms, rollers, massive views, and alt lines for advanced riders. Locals are now calling it a 6-mile escalator, and one of the best trails in Tahoe.

Most riders now take Stanford Rock Trail as an out and back either to the summit, Yale Rock (a giant piece of volcanic rock next to the trail overlooking Twin Peaks), the TRT, or the wilderness boundary. Definitely worth a trip to the wilderness boundary or a scramble to Twin Peaks Summit as well.

Contacts

Shared By:

S. Lengyel with improvements by Jesse Weber

Trail Ratings

  4.9 from 7 votes

#7

in Lake Tahoe

#1492

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  4.9 from 7 votes
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Trail Rankings

#7

in Lake Tahoe

#120

in California

#1,492

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2,327 Since May 25, 2016
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Photos

Near the top of the climb (looking back) on the Stanford Rock trail.
Aug 13, 2016 near Sunnysi…, CA
Epic views from the climb!  Tahoe, South Shore, Blackwood Canyon, Rubicon Peak, Desolation Wilderness.
May 11, 2016 near Sunnysi…, CA
Worth every pedal.
Oct 4, 2022 near Sunnysi…, CA
Smokey, Tamarack fire..
Jul 25, 2021 near Sunnysi…, CA
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Aug 2, 2024
Jon Reno
Jul 11, 2022
Erin Chavet
Nov 14, 2021
brian c
A lot of snow. Trees down. I'd say done for the season. 13mi
Sep 9, 2019
Deana Davis
Jul 2, 2017
Will Geier
Still tons of fallen trees, snow, and lots of mosquitoes!
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