The Dardanelles and Freel Roadless Areas are located 7 miles (11 km) and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Lake Tahoe, California respectively, and both are managed by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the US Forest Service.These areas are contiguous, separated only by the corridor of highway 89. The historic Hawley Grade, an immigrant wagon road, now a hiking trail, is within the Dardanelles Roadless Area, as well as the watershed of Lake Tahoe's largest inflow, the Upper Truckee River. The Freel Roadless Area is named for Freel Peak, the highest point in both the Lake Tahoe Basin and the Carson Range. Freel Peak supports one of the few areas of alpine cushion plants this far north in the Sierra Nevada /Carson Range. Both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Tahoe Rim Trail pass through these ro