Mount Rose Summit is a

mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...

located in the

Carson Range The Carson Range is a spur of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and western Nevada that starts at Carson Pass and stretches north to the Truckee River near Verdi, Nevada. Geography The mountain range is about 50 miles (80 km) long and ...

near Mount Rose and Slide Mountain, northeast of

Incline Village Incline Village is a census-designated place (CDP) on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The population was 8,777 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Reno− Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. Until the 2 ...

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, United States.

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images. The pass is traversed by State Route 431, which is the highest point of the highway and the highest mountain pass in the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

that remains open year-round. The saddle itself features a parking lot and a small building which both serve as a highway stop. A closed dirt road leading to the

Mount Rose Ski Resort Mount Rose Ski Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Reno, Nevada. The closest resort to the city, it is located about south-southwest of Reno, in the Carson Range. It has the highest base elevat ...

ends near the northern section of the summit. The pass is the low point of the saddle between Slide Mountain and

Tamarack Peak Tamarack Peak is a 9,897-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. Description Tamarack Peak is set six miles north of Lake Tahoe on the boundary that Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit shares with Humboldt ...

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{{Sierra Nevada Mountain passes of Nevada Landforms of Washoe County, Nevada