Contours, elevations and trails from OpenTopoMap. Scroll down for the zoomable map.
Hope Valley sits high on the east side of Carson Pass, a broad meadow-and-forest basin ringed by granite and aspen where the West Fork of the Carson River winds through. Our base is the cabin at the Desolation Hotel; from there the walks run out to the waterfall, up to the state/national-park boundary and the old measurement tree on the peak, and along the river through the pines.
