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Granite Lake is a very beautiful lake in beautiful surroundings. You'll meet a lot of folks from Gardnerville Ranchos here, and if you like skiing, you're in luck; Bear Valley is rather near. This lake is so wonderful. Hiking along the Charity Valley Trail is perfect fun, and Carson River - East Fork is a great whitewater spot close by. Dry warm beds await you at Harvest Inn-St Helena, Napa Valley, and Rice Lake is a nearby lake that you could check out.
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| | You'll wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the amusing stuff at Granite Lake. So many cool things to do here in the Northern Sierra Nevada, too great to be true. If you need a spot to stay Pine Cone Acre Motel is a splendid choice, and while you're here, you could also pop by beautiful Evergreen Lake. Granite Lake is a beautiful lake in the Northern Sierra Nevada. This lake is so wonderful. The snow is good at Kirkwood, and Damsite Campground is | |
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a good campground nearby. At Granite Lake all through the summer highs are in the 70's. When the night sets in temperatures fall down into the 40's. For the period of the winter highs are regularly in the 30's, and overnight lows
all through the wintertime for Granite Lake tend to be in the 10's. If the weather is tremendous here at Granite Lake, you can go for a hike along the Emigrant Trail; Snow Canyon is a great place to spend some time. Man, is there
lots of entertaining things to do in the Northern Sierra Nevada. Going for a hike along the Burnside Lake Trail will let you absorb the natural beauty of this neighborhood; if you came for an overnight stay Upper Blue Lake Campground
is a tremendous place to camp. If you want a wonderful time in the great outdoors, just come on down to Granite Lake. You can run the rapids of Mokelumne River - North Fork next to Granite Lake, and Devils Corral is a great site here
at Granite Lake. Granite Lake is a relatively wet place commonly with a lot of rainfall; during the month of January you get the most snow around here; the driest month of the year is July.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 38.62 Longitude: -119.9603
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| | Hiking Trails Near Granite Lake:
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Burnside Lake Trail, Alpine County, 8 miles away 3.4 hiking miles, 2762 feet elevation difference |
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Emigrant Trail, Alpine County, 9 miles away 1.2 hiking miles, 463 feet elevation difference |
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Kirkwood, California, 6 miles away 2000 vertical feet |
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Bear Valley, California, 9 miles away 1900 vertical feet |
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| | Whitewater Near Granite Lake:
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Mokelumne River - North Fork, Alpine/ Amador/ Calaveras CountyCounty, 9 miles away Class V+ - 24.9 miles long (Route 4 Bridge to Salt Springs Reservoir) |
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Carson River - East Fork, Alpine CountyCounty, 14 miles away Class II - 20 miles long (Hangman's Bridge to Gardnerville) |
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Utica Reservoir
 | 10 miles away 1 PHOTO ...the 1990's. Good fishing. Lake feeds to Union below. Do not expect fish there. DFG is not stocki... |
Turtle Rock Campgrounds
 | 12 miles away 1 PHOTO |
Bear River Lake Resort
 | 12 miles away ... us for a wedding in Lake Tahoe. We stayed here and everyone was helpful. The continental breakfas... |
Spicer Meadow Reservoir
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Sand Flat Campground
 | 14 miles away ...ely on the 'go back again' list. The road down is pretty rough. My explorer handled it with zero pro... |
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 | 14 miles away 1 PHOTO ... fire rings. The swimming was okay, but we're pretty sure there might have been leaches. We hiked in... |
Chris Haven Mobile Home Park
 | 15 miles away Chris Haven is the best run location I've been in !... |
Clark Fork Campground
 | 16 miles away ...ower. The fishing in the Clark Fork River is good. The Forest Service plants trout every week. Th... |
Heavenly
 | 17 miles away 4 PHOTOS ...e Pandora's Box of choices and temptations. On-mountain exhilaration yields to après ecstasy in the ... |
Salt Springs Reservoir
 | 18 miles away ...k down a narrow 18 mile road from HWY 88. When we got to the dam, we found that the boat ramp was cl... |
Dodge Ridge
 | 23 miles away ...se your kids like you can at the bigger resorts. They have a great all-day ski school program. They ... |
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