Biking, hiking trails open in Tahoe

Cyclists on the Fallen Leaf Lake path. Photos/U.S. Forest Service

Monument Trail connects to the TRT.

The U.S. Forest Service has been busy completing paved and dirt trails in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The new Fallen Leaf Bike Path is approximately 2,000-feet long and 10-feet wide. It connects the Fallen Leaf Campground to the Pope Baldwin National Recreation Trail.

At just more than 3 miles, the Monument Pass Trail connects High Meadows to the Tahoe Rim Trail on the southeast end of Lake Tahoe. The trail is part of a larger group of trail projects known as the Trail Access and Travel Management Plan, a process used by the Forest Service to plan, review, design and construct trail systems in the Lake Tahoe Basin.