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Attractions near Topaz Lake

Lake Tahoe, 38 mi from Topaz Lake

Yearly visitors to Yosemite National Park number about 4.3M. All of it lies outside: 10 places within 40 miles, none inside Topaz Lake. On the list: 4 ski areas, a lake and a national park, among others. Drive 55 mi to reach Mono Lake.

Attractions nearby
34
within 60 miles
The big one
38 mi
Lake Tahoe
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
13
Palisades Tahoe Olympic Valley
Big draws
2
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Lake · 38 mi northwest

Lake Tahoe

Lake in California and Nevada, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Finding your way

At the edge of the map sits Stanislaus National Forest, 40 mi out.

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Orange: Topaz Lake. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place after place

All 34 on the list lie within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Topaz Lake → · Topaz Lake’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Lake Tahoe: Lara Farhadi, CC BY 2.0 · Yosemite National Park: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mono Lake: File:Mono lake sat.jpg: created by NASA Rotation and crop: Hike395, Public domain · Hetch Hetchy: Vulpinus2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Donner Lake: J.smith, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Palisades Tahoe Olympic Valley: Jonnyboyca at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Calaveras Big Trees State Park: John J. O'Brien (talk · contribs), Public domain · Donner Memorial State Park: Joe Parks from Berkeley, CA, CC BY 2.0 · Mount Rose Ski Tahoe: Beesmill, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Reno Arch: Mobilus In Mobili, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Desolation Wilderness: Phreakdigital at English Wikipedia, GFDL · Kirkwood Mountain Resort: Gabeguss, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Emerald Bay State Park: Michael, CC BY 2.0 · Stanislaus National Forest: U.S. National Park Service, Public domain · Dodge Ridge Ski Area: IanGad, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bear Valley: Shayan Sanyal, CC BY 2.0 · National Automobile Museum: User:Jaydec, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fourth Ward School: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Nevada Museum of Art: Rmart123, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Piper's Opera House: Vivaverdi, CC BY 3.0 · Hawthorne Ordnance Museum: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ, JR, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mineral County Museum: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sierra Nevada Logging Museum: Junkyardsparkle, CC0

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