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    Dry Lake is a very beautiful lake in beautiful surroundings. This lake is so wonderful. If you need a location to stay Harvest Inn-St Helena, Napa Valley is a delightful choice, and hiking along the Windmiller Trail is good fun. From a rain point of view Dry Lake is a quite common place; the month of January is the wettest with most of the snow, and the driest of the months is July. This lake is so wonderful. If you get bored of Dry Lake, you could also explore  
   nearby Dark Lake; dry warm beds await you at Pine Cone Acre Motel.
This lake is one of the great places here in the Northern Sierra Nevada. A pleasant trip to Chimney Flat is a great way to spend an afternoon, and don't forget to take a glorious little spree to Lyons Creek. Yep, outdoors exciting stuff to do are in fact bountiful here at Dry Lake. A great place for whitewater paddling near Dry Lake is Silver Creek - South Fork, and if you came for an overnight
 
               stay Thirty-nine Mile Campground is a wonderful site to camp.
If the weather is great here at Dry Lake, you can go for a hike along the Highland Trail. You just can't envision the amount of outdoors fun stuff the Northern Sierra Nevada has to offer. You can run the rapids of American River - South Fork in the neighborhood of Dry Lake, and the slopes of Homewood are so inviting noone can resist. Summer at Dry Lake comes with high temperatures in the 70's. When the night sets in temperatures descend down into the 40's. High temperatures during the winter are normally in the 40's, and nighttime lows throughout the winter for Dry Lake tend to be in the 10's.
Everybody close by loves skiing at Sierra at Tahoe, and going for a hike along the Red Peak Trail will let you absorb the natural beauty of this region. Whohoo, so much fun stuff in one place! The Northern Sierra Nevada is so good! Wrights Lake is a nearby lake that you could explore, and camping is available at Eagle Rock Campground.

 
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Current weather conditions at Dry Lake, Northern Sierra Nevada, El Dorado County, California
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Local climate location: TAHOE CITY 18 miles away


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  Coordinates:
Latitude: 38.81806
Longitude: -120.2369

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These outdoors activities are available near Dry Lake.
 Hotels Near Dry Lake:
Pine Cone Acre Motel, South Lake Tahoe, 14 miles away
Harvest Inn-St Helena, Napa Valley, Saint Helena, 18 miles away
The Truckee Hotel, Truckee, 19 miles away
High Country Lodge, South Lake Tahoe, 19 miles away
Inn By The Lake, South Lake Tahoe, 20 miles away
 Camp Grounds Near Dry Lake:
Eagle Rock Campground, El Dorado County, 3 miles away
Thirty-nine Mile Campground, El Dorado County, 3 miles away
China Flat Campground, El Dorado County, 4 miles away
Pyramid Campground, El Dorado County, 4 miles away
 Hiking Trails Near Dry Lake:
Windmiller Trail, El Dorado County, 2 miles away
      2.9 hiking miles, 1011 feet elevation difference
Red Peak Trail, El Dorado County, 6 miles away
      6.5 hiking miles, 1766 feet elevation difference
Highland Trail, El Dorado County, 8 miles away
      8 hiking miles, 2237 feet elevation difference
 Ski Areas Near Dry Lake:
Sierra at Tahoe, California, 8 miles away
      2212 vertical feet
Homewood, California, 15 miles away
      1650 vertical feet
Kirkwood, California, 15 miles away
      2000 vertical feet
 Whitewater Near Dry Lake:
American River - South Fork, El Dorado CountyCounty, 2 miles away
      Class IV-V - 9.6 miles long (Strawberry to Kyburz)
Silver Creek - South Fork, El Dorado CountyCounty, 4 miles away
      Class V+ - 2 miles long (Atherton Flat to Ice House Reservoir)
American River - South Fork, El Dorado CountyCounty, 10 miles away
      Class III-V - 9.6 miles long (Kyburz to Riverton)
 Lakes Near Dry Lake:
Wrights Lake, El Dorado CountyCounty, 2 miles away
Dark Lake, El Dorado CountyCounty, 2 miles away

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