Wrights Lake - El Dorado County, California

Visited on 7/21/2018, Jeff and I loaded up our two chocolate Labradors, Summer and Skye and we traveled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado County to visit a couple lakes on a summer day.  Our first stop was Wrights Lake located east of Pollock Pines, California at an elevation of 7,000 feet above sea level.  It was a very smoky day due to the nearby Yosemite wildfires about two hours south of the lake. 

Wrights Lake is 22 miles from Highway 50 via the best roads. A shorter, 8-mile route is possible on Wrights Lake Road (Forest Road 4), but it has many tight turns not recommended for trailers or long vehicles.  The 45-acre lake is less than a mile long. Cabins line the northern and eastern shores. This small lake is in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, west of Lake Tahoe on the western border of the Desolation Wilderness. It can be reached via Wrights Road off Ice House Road. It provides hiking access to the western portions of the Desolation Wilderness via the Twin Lakes trailhead. Wrights Road is not plowed and is inaccessible during the winter.