US-395 road conditions
Yes — US-395 is open, with no chain controls in effect.
Checked against Caltrans District 9 and 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 north–south spine through Reno and Carson City, running south past Gardnerville toward the Eastern Sierra.
US-395: questions answered
Webcams by town: Carson City webcams.
Weather at Minden
- Today
- Sunny
- Temperature
- 65°F
- Wind
- 5 to 10 mph
- Zone
- NVZ003
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Forecast read
Cameras and chain-control points on US-395
73 cameras and 0 chain-control points. Click a camera marker to open it.
What to know in winter
Lower and more reliable than the passes, but wind and blowing snow close it in the open stretches.
If it closes: I-580 carries the Reno–Carson section; there is no real alternate south of Gardnerville.
This road crosses the state line, and the two states do not use the same system. On the California side Caltrans posts R-1, R-2 and R-3. On the Nevada side NDOT posts two conditions and has no third level; its exemption threshold is 10,000 lb rather than California’s 6,000.
Where the line is: Caltrans District 9 south of the state line; NDOT through Carson City, Washoe Valley and Reno.
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 US-395
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Other roads
- I-80
Sacramento to the Utah line, over Donner Pass and then across northern Nevada.
- SR-431 Mt Rose
The Mt Rose Highway, Reno to Incline Village — the highest year-round pass in the Sierra 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.
- 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: Caltrans District 9 (public domain) and 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.