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Pequop Summit

Live camera on I-80, with the current status of the road it sits on and the forecast at the nearest pass.

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Pequop Summit · Nevada DOT · NV · source
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Weather at Pequop Summit

Today
Sunny
Temperature
54°F
Wind
5 to 10 mph
Zone
NVZ039

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Where this camera is

This camera is the red marker; the blue dots are the other cameras on I-80. Click one to open it.

What this camera shows

Sitting at 6,964 feet, this view captures the actual crest of the pass, more than a thousand feet higher than the lower approaches on either side. Those flanking locations sit at about the same height as each other—below 6,000 feet—where storms frequently arrive as rain or light slush. This higher vantage reveals whether precipitation has turned entirely to sticking snow, giving an accurate picture of freezing temperatures at the ridge line long before the lower approaches whiten.

Looking at the pavement here tells you if high-altitude crosswinds are creating blowing drifts across the lanes, a severe problem on exposed crests that the lower canyon cameras simply cannot register. Tracking the live video stream reveals how fast traffic moves across the exposed summit grade, helping you spot spinning tires, sudden decelerations, or lane-blocking stalls on the climb that would otherwise remain invisible from the valley floor.

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Chain-control points on I-80

Caltrans does not control the whole road at once — it sets controls at whichever point matches the snow level, so the same storm produces controls at different places on different days. These are the California-side points, highest first:

PointElevationNearNow
Castle Peak, (@ DRA Holding only)7,247 ftNordenClear
DLI (Donner Lake Interchange)6,404 ftTruckeeClear
Kingvale6,076 ftSoda SpringsClear
Rainbow5,921 ftSoda SpringsClear
Truckee5,905 ftTruckeeClear
Overland Trail - OTL Truck Screens5,820 ftTruckeeClear
Yuba Gap5,770 ftEmigrant GapClear
Cisco Grove5,659 ftSoda SpringsClear
Boca5,531 ftTruckeeClear
Eagle Lakes5,449 ftEmigrant GapClear
Floriston On-ramp5,403 ftFloristonClear
Nyack5,400 ftEmigrant GapClear

The cameras either side

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Pequop Eastbound · Nevada DOT · NV · source
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Pequop Westbound · Nevada DOT · NV · source

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