Enjoy the Perseid Meteor Shower at Squaw Valley USA

If you are in the Lake Tahoe region this weekend, make your way over to Squaw Valley USA on Monday night for a high rise camp out under Mother Nature's Perseid meteor shower.

The Perseids are an annual happenning, beginning in late July and stretching into August. However, there is always one night that the viewing of the shower is at its best and this year, that evening falls on Monday, August 11. The main event night pretty much guarantees sky wathchers will be presented with colorful fireballs, occasional outbursts, and almost always, long hours of gracefully streaking meteors.

On Monday evening, Perseid Meteor Shower campers can upload the Cable Car between 5 pm and 6:30 pm. Arriving at High Camp, guests have the option of a sun set hike around Squaw Valley's upper mountain peaks or eating a special dinner at the mountaintop cafe.

Professional stargazers will be at the 8,200' High Camp site providing viewing telescopes and an informational briefing. At 10 pm, the meteor shower viewing will begin and in the morning, from 7 am to 8 am, campers will enjoy a continental breakfast before taking the Cable Car back down.

The Perseid Meteor Shower Family Campout is subject to selling out so reservations are required. If you can't make this event you can still explore the wonders of the night sky during one of Squaw Valley's summer Stargazing Sessions each Friday and Saturday evening in July and August. More information is available on Squaw Valley USA.

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