Pyramid Lake
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
- 4 hours on the lake
- Breakfast wrap while out on the boat
- lunch at the dock after a good day fishing
- Fresh coffee and beverage throughout the day
- Folgers can on the boat
- Visit historic Sufcliffe
- Enjoy the traditional ice cream cone from Sutcliffe Marina and visitor center
DATES AVAILABLE:
$85
per day
per person
Pyramid Lake is 33 miles northeast of Sparks via Nevada Route 445 (Pyramid Way); 16 miles north of I-80 at Wadsworth via Nevada Route 447.
The drive to Pyramid Lake from Reno carries you through a succession of shallow depressions between low, brush-stubbled hills. It is a pleasant drive, but long enough to create an awareness of the desert's monotony. To those whose tolerance of the desert is low, the half-hour drive may be enough to permit that monotony to become oppressive. But when the last rise is topped, the eyesearing expanse of Pyramid Lake stretched out before you is a stunning, staggering sight: a sheet of electric blue cupped between pastel mountains of chalky pinks and greys.
John C. Fremont was the first American to gaze down at Pyramid Lake, and his journal entry of 10 January 1844 records his impressions of the lake: ". . . we continued our way up the hollow, intending to see what lay beyond the mountain. The hollow was several miles long, forming a good pass; the snow deepening to about a foot as we neared the summit. Beyond, a defile between the mountains descended rapidly about two thousand feet; and, filling up all the lower space, was a sheet of green water, some twenty miles broad. It broke upon our eyes like the ocean."
Pyramid is a favorite hunting ground for the fishermen who wade out deep and cast for trout even in wintry weather.
Please familiarize your self with the rules and regulations of the lake.
