{"id":2042,"date":"2008-07-25T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2008-07-25T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T19:28:42","slug":"island-lake-in-tahoe-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/07\/25\/island-lake-in-tahoe-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Lake in Tahoe National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island Lake is a great place for an easy overnighter, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calipidder.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/island-lake-something-for-ever.html\">Calipidder documented the other day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic from an overnighter I did near there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/25\/camping-by-lakes-and-trees\/\">a couple summers back<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2701962920\/\" title=\"Island Lake by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/2701962920_92d4dff1d9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Island Lake\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a mile and a half past the Carr Lake Trailhead. It gets a bit crowded on summer weekends, but if you&#8217;re craving solitude you can just hike deeper into the backcountry nearby.  Carr Lake is nice for car camping, but you&#8217;ll want to get there early on a Friday, if possible, to secure a site. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Google map of the Carr Lake Trailhead; Island Lake is over to the right:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?client=safari&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=p&amp;s=AARTsJrt4L1J0k6twEZUoIv-SwL_kCcvWw&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=115126947147176520821.000452dd2f3cf59d2c9db&amp;ll=39.408346,-120.622501&amp;spn=0.046421,0.085831&amp;z=13&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?client=safari&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=p&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=115126947147176520821.000452dd2f3cf59d2c9db&amp;ll=39.408346,-120.622501&amp;spn=0.046421,0.085831&amp;z=13&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This would make a nice place for a day hike, if you didn&#8217;t mind the drive up from the Bay Area. <\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/gorp.away.com\/gorp\/resource\/us_national_forest\/ca\/hik_taho.htm\">Gorp&#8217;s Tahoe National Forest hiking page.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island Lake is a great place for an easy overnighter, as Calipidder documented the other day. Here&#8217;s a pic from an overnighter I did near there a couple summers back: It&#8217;s just a mile and a half past the Carr&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/07\/25\/island-lake-in-tahoe-national-forest\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}