In the winter you can also cross country ski, snow-shoe, or hit some of the nearby ski resorts. Other activities include fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, boating, picnicking, play some tennis, visit the historic sites and wildlife viewing. Remember to bring your hiking boots, because you will have more than a half a dozen hiking trails to choose from. Hiking is very popular, with a number of alpine hiking trails. There’s a lot of outdoor activities to enjoy in the area. Sugar Pine Point State Park – Area Recreation Campsites can accommodate trailers up to 26 feet and RVs up to 32 feet. Most campsites are reservable, but there are a handful they keep open for first-come, first-serve. The campground is open year round, but only with a limited number of sites in the winter. Sugar Pine Point is above 6,200-ft elevation so be sure you check the weather conditions. In addition, the restrooms, showers and campfire center is accessible. Each site has parking, a cooking facility, water, trash bin, and a tent pad. The inside dimensions of the food lockers 36″ deep, 43″ wide, and 22″ high.Īmenities include drinking water, flush toilets, showers, an RV dump station, campground host, campfire center, picnic area and firewood (for sale). Also, ice chests may not be stored in vehicles. Sugar pine is notable for having the longest seed cones of any conifer, mostly 10 to 20 inches (25. They measure 2 to 4 inches (611 cm) long. All food, beverages and toiletries must be stored in the food locker. Pinus lambertiana is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group: leaves (needles) are borne in bundles (fascicles) of five, with a deciduous sheath. Each campsite has a table, fire ring, grate and food storage locker. There’s also a nice forest of pine, fir, aspen and cedar trees.
The Park has one of the best natural areas on Lake Tahoe with almost 2 miles of lake frontage. All campsites are available to reserve from about mid-May to mid-September, but there are also 24 sites (first-come, first-serve) that are open year-round for snow camping. This unusually large mature female sugar pine cone is 22.9 inches long. Sugar Pine Point State Park Campground (also known as Ed Z’berg or General Creek) has 175 campsites located in a Ponderosa pine forest about 1/2 mile from Lake Tahoe. Sugar pines occur at elevations from 183 m (600 ft) (rare) with Coast redwoods, to 3,353 m (11,000 ft) (upper limit) on Mount San Pedro in southern California, but they are most commonly found at 9141829 m (3,0006,000 ft) elevation.
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