Best places to live for access?

[TahoeJeff]

No matter where you live in the Tahoe basin, you probably have amazing hiking & biking a short walk from your door.

Almost every neighborhood, east, south, north or west shore has a road that dead ends to a trail on USFS land.

[Silky Smooth]

The eastern sierra has some of the best access to the high sierra and everything else is not far. Depends what you want out of your experience. Housing is super tough right now and it's very competitive. The real estate environment has changed a lot in the last couple of years with everyone discovering the "outdoors' and the "eastern sierra". Mammoth is the place you want to be for sure

[wulfman]

Reliability and speed of the local internet connection is a major consideration. Most small mountain towns have limited connection. Ours goes out frequently, and is not very fast when it does work. Not only internet, but all power goes out occasionally.

With Starlink that should be a solved problem. Not cheap, but if it works as well as people report, it might be worth it.