How to Avoid South Lake Tahoe Holiday Traffic
November 21, 2008
I like to pass on my local knowledge when I feel I have something useful. It seems every holiday season we get slammed with traffic jams leaving South Lake. The reason is obvious to even the less frequent visitor. During the Holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas/New years, 4th of July and most big ski and summer weekends visitors come up by the car loads. Okay hang with me on this, a bulk of the travelers come up for an extended weekend but they don’t all come up at once. Some tourists start their weekend fun by coming early, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at all different times which creates some congestion on the roads but usually not major traffic jams. Now, when do they go home………? You got it, the majority of the Bay Area visitors go home on Sunday starting in the afternoon (check out time and a quick bit to eat) around 12noon-2pm. Now add a little or a lot of snow and you get gridlock. So, here are few secrets I’ll share. #1 leave late Saturday or very early Sunday or very late Sunday. That sounds easy right? I know you don’t want to get up early or get home too late, okay one last piece of local knowledge that I might get in trouble for sharing but here it is anyway. If you go straight at the South Tahoe Y intersection instead of turning left and going through Meyers, you will come out on Hwy. 50 past the the agricultural inspection station at the intersection of Hwy. 50 and North Upper Truckee Rd. Usually there are 3-10 cars waiting to make the right turn but you can save hours of inching along in gridlock traffic. You are welcome! One last thing, form wherever you are check out the live traffic cam at the intersection of Hwy. 50 and Hwy 89 in Meyers http://video.dot.ca.gov/ this will show you if traffic is moving, if it is snowing or if chain controls are being enforced.
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You gave away our local secret!
Sorry Keri but I give away the secret to all my potential clients. I think it will mostly remain a secret. I have a lot of potential South Lake buyers that tell me that it is easier to visit the North Shore and travel hwy. 80 and that is just not true. I just watched the news and 80 is closed right now because of a jack knifed big rig in the snow. I have to spread the word about how much easier it is to visit and buy in the South Shore.