Carson Ranger District


Carson Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is in size. Roughly half of the district is in western Nevada, and half in eastern California.

Geography

The Carson Ranger District is approximately wide and long. The district headquarters are located in Carson City, Nevada.
The Carson Ranger District's eastern border is just east of Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and the western border is in El Dorado County and Alpine County, California.
Its northern border is northwest of Reno, Nevada and the southern border extends into the Sierra Nevada just north of the Sonora Pass in California, north of Yosemite National Park.
Most of the Carson Ranger District is available by a four-hour drive to over 10 million people, including those in several major metropolitan areas.

Wilderness areas

The Carson Ranger District contains three designated wilderness areas within the Sierra Nevada. They are the:
The Carson Ranger District's climate is varied as is the landscape. It ranges from snowy alpine peaks to the warmer lower valleys covered with the sagebrush of the semi-arid high Great Basin Desert.
In the summer temperatures range in the mid to high during the day and at night may go down to the mid. Winter temperatures are usually in the mid during the day and the low at night.
Average rain fall in the winter is less than a month while in the summer it is less than a month. There may be tropical monsoons from Mexico occasionally in the late Summer.