State Route 878 (SR 878) is a short
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in
Washoe County,
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
. The highway is known as Slide Mountain Road.
Route description
The southern terminus of SR 878 is at the eastern base of
Slide Mountain, in the mountains of 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 a ...
near
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe (; was, Dáʔaw, meaning "the lake") is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at , it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake i ...
, at the parking lot for the Winters Creek Lodge of the
Mount Rose Ski Resort. From this point, one can see
Washoe Valley
The Washoe Valley is a geographical region in the United States covering in southern Washoe County in the state of Nevada. Located between Reno and Carson City, it is named for the Washoe people, Native Americans who lived there before the arr ...
and
Washoe Lake in the distance. From here, the highway curves around the northeastern side of the mountain, traveling about to its northern terminus at an intersection with Mount Rose Highway (
SR 431), not far from
Mount Rose.
History
Slide Mountain Road was first approved for the SR 878 designation on July 1, 1976.
Major intersections
See also
*
*
References
{{commons category, Nevada State Route 878
878
Transportation in Washoe County, Nevada