SR-431 Mt Rose road conditions
Yes — SR-431 Mt Rose is open, with no chain controls in effect.
Checked against NDOT. Confirm at nvroads.com before you travel.
Storm alerts
A notification on this device when chain control starts, changes or lifts, or a road closes or reopens. Pick your roads:
An alert is a heads-up that something changed, not a road report, and it can arrive a few minutes after the change. Before you drive, check Caltrans QuickMap or Nevada 511 (nvroads.com), or call 511. A few alerts a day at most; no account, no email, and you can turn them off here any time (what we keep).
The Mt Rose Highway, Reno to Incline Village — the highest year-round pass in the Sierra Nevada.
SR-431 Mt Rose: questions answered
- Mt Rose Highway Conditions: Do I Need Chains Right Now?
- Mt Rose Highway or I-80 in a Storm
- Reno to Tahoe: Which Road Is Open Right Now
- Are Snow Socks Legal in Tahoe Chain Controls?
- Cable Chains, Snow Socks or Link Chains for Tahoe?
- Car Rental at Reno-Tahoe Airport (RNO): A Winter Guide
- Lake Tahoe Road Conditions and Chain Controls
Webcams by town: Incline Village webcams.
Weather at Mt Rose Summit
- This Afternoon
- Sunny
- Temperature
- 38°F
- Wind
- 35 mph
- Zone
- NVZ002
This forecast could not be refreshed on the last run and may be out of date.
Snow, next 72 hours at Mt Rose Summit: none · How much snow is Mt Rose Summit getting →
Forecast read
Cameras and chain-control points on SR-431 Mt Rose
12 cameras and 0 chain-control points. Click a camera marker to open it.
What to know in winter
The first road in the area to get chain controls and among the first to close. Steep, exposed and high.
If it closes: US-395 to I-80 and round through Truckee, or US-50 by way of Carson City. Both are long but lower.
This road is NDOT’s, and Nevada’s chain rules are not California’s. There are two conditions rather than three. "Chains or Snow Tires Required" asks for snow tires or traction devices under 10,000 lb, with four-wheel drive on four mud-snow tires acceptable. "Chains Required" means chains on everything except four-wheel drive on four mud-snow tires. There is no Nevada equivalent of R-3. The whole road is inside Nevada, Reno to Incline Village.
And this road is stricter still. On these roads Nevada goes further than its statewide rule: when a chain requirement is in place, the only vehicles allowed through without chains are four-wheel or all-wheel drive with snow tires.
Textile snow socks count as chains in California and are approved in Nevada, except on three Tahoe roads where NDOT's rule names chains: are snow socks legal in chain controls. Which to buy: cable chains, snow socks or link chains.
Cameras on SR-431 Mt Rose
All 12 Mt Rose Highway webcams →
The passes on SR-431 Mt Rose
Mt Rose Highway webcams
No chain controls at Mt Rose Summit (NDOT). Checked .
Every pass camera in the Sierra, with its chain control →
Ski resorts reached by SR-431 Mt Rose
Every Tahoe resort's opening day, snow and forecast →
Other roads
- I-80
Sacramento to the Utah line, over Donner Pass and then across northern Nevada.
- SR-267
Truckee to Kings Beach over Brockway Summit.
- SR-28
The north and east shore road, Tahoe City to Incline Village and on to Spooner.
- SR-89
The west shore, Tahoe City past Emerald Bay to South Lake Tahoe, and north to Truckee and Sierraville.
- US-50
Reno and Carson City to South Lake Tahoe and on to Sacramento, over Spooner and Echo Summit.
- US-395
The north–south spine through Reno and Carson City, running south past Gardnerville toward the Eastern Sierra.
- SR-207
Kingsbury Grade, the short climb from the Carson Valley to Stateline and South Lake Tahoe.
- SR-88 Carson Pass
Carson Pass, from the Carson Valley over to Jackson and the Central Valley.
- Reno city cameras
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Chain-control status and closures: Nevada DOT / nvroads.com. Camera images: Caltrans (public domain) and Nevada DOT / nvroads.com. Weather: National Weather Service — not an official NWS product. Always confirm at roads.dot.ca.gov or nvroads.com before you travel.