Nevada begins bike trail to connect around Lake Tahoe

Crews have completed the first mile of a bike path on the Nevada-side of Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe Transportation district ultimately plans to create a bike trail that circles the lake.

The first mile of bike trail on the Nevada-side of the lake stretches from Stateline on the south shore north toward Nevada beach. Carl Hasty with the Tahoe Transportation District says a recent $12,000 check from the non-profit Tahoe Fund will go toward completing another mile next summer.

"A mile of bike trail can run anywhere from $2 to 3 million to build the kind of bike trail that I'm talking about. And that's from scratch, it's not striping the side of the road or something like that," Hasty said. He estimates it will take another 10 years to complete a bike trail around the lake. He says there's a lot of local and visitor support for such a trail that would connect to existing trails on the California side.

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