Information on How to Get to Lake Tahoe

By Car

Lake Tahoe is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, approximately 200 miles Northeast of San Franciso via Interstate Highway 80 and California Highway 50. The drive time is approximately 4 ½ hours depending on traffic.

Visitors from the North will likely use Interstate 5 to Sacramento and then Hwy 50 east (about 2 hours). Access from the East and Salt Lake City is via Interstate 80. From the Southeast and Las Vegas, several state highways cross rural Nevada (including Death Valley) in about 8 hours. Bishop, CA makes a good overnight stop and leaves a 3 hour drive to Tahoe.

By Air

The Reno/Tahoe International airport serves the Lake Tahoe area. It is in Reno, NV, about 1 hour from the Event Hotel. Eleven airlines serve this airport, so you might find a direct flight via Denver or Salt Lake City, or even Chicago, JFK, Dallas or Atlanta. Of course, you could always fly from San Francisco or Los Angeles or other West Coast cities.

If you are shipping a car, ideally you would have your transporter meet you in Reno as that may save several hundred miles of driving into CA. If not bringing a car, a convenient shuttle bus runs several times a day from the Reno Airport (RNO) to South Lake Tahoe.