Spooner Junction

Spooner Junction is a road junction in Douglas, Nevada and has an elevation of 7,037 feet. Spooner Junction is situated nearby to the reservoir Spooner Lake, as well as near the mountain saddle Spooner Summit.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Spooner Lake and Spooner Summit.

Spooner Lake

Reservoir

Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Spooner Lake is a man-made reservoir located just north of the intersection of Highway 50 and Highway 28 near Spooner Summit, a pass in the Carson Range of the Sierra Nevada, leading to Carson City, Nevada from Lake Tahoe.

Spooner Summit

Mountain saddle

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Spooner Summit is a mountain pass through the Carson Range, linking the Lake Tahoe Area to Carson City via US 50. The highest point of the pass is located just east of Spooner Lake just before the first set of curves when traveling eastbound.

SS Tahoe

Disaster remains

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SS Tahoe was a steamship that operated on Lake Tahoe at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Scuttled in 1940, the wreck presently lies in 400 feet of water off Glenbrook, Nevada. SS Tahoe is situated 2½ miles west of Spooner Junction.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenbrook.

Glenbrook

Hamlet

Glenbrook is a census-designated place on the east shore of Lake Tahoe in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, Glenbrook had a population of 315. Glenbrook is situated 1½ miles southwest of Spooner Junction.

Spooner Junction

Type: Road junction
Category: transportation
Location: Douglas, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.10074° or 39° 6′ 3″ north

Longitude

-119.91046° or 119° 54′ 38″ west

Elevation

7,037 feet (2,145 metres)

Open location code

85F2432Q+7R

GeoNames ID

5512865

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