Tamarack, formerly known as Camp Tamarack, is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, established in the 1920s. It sits at an elevation of 6,913 feet on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, near Bear Valley. Tamarack is famous for its snow: the nearby weather station recorded about 884 inches of snowfall in the winter of 1906–1907, the greatest seasonal total ever recorded in California, and a snow depth of 451 inches in March 1911.