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Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Lake Tahoe is one of California's favorite year-round playground. Home to one of the highest alpine lakes, the area offers beautiful natural scenery and challenging outdoor recreation. World famous Heavenly ski resort rises from the Lake and town below, offering tremendous winter sports. The Lake, gaming and entertainment, and beaches make this area the envy of most western resort destinations.
Lake Tahoe, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and bordering both California and Nevada, is the country’s premier skiing destination in the winter with an average snow fall of 409 inches and 15 downhill resorts and 10 cross-country centers. Here, activities like snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, sledding, and even sleigh riding can be a part of your winter fun. In the summer, South Lake Tahoe is as an exciting vacation destination where visitors can enjoy sailing, water sports, beaches, golf, rock climbing, horseback riding, bungee jumping, parasailing, camping, ballooning, and much more.
The most picturesque view of the lake are at Emerald Bay. In addition, make sure you hike the 1 mile trek down to Vikingsholm Castle to see one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in the western hemisphere.
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Freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States, located along the border between California and Nevada at its major bend west of Carson City. The lake is known for the clarity of its water and the panorama of surrounding mountains on all sides. The area, often referred to as Tahoe, is home to a number of ski resorts and summer outdoor recreation.
Annual precipitation ranges from over 55 inches/year or 140 cm in watersheds on the west side of the basin to about 26 inches/year or 67 cm near the lake on the east side of the basin. Most of the precipitation falls as snow between November and April, although rainstorms combined with rapid snowmelt account for the largest floods. There is a pronounced annual runoff of snowmelt in late spring and early summer, the timing of which varies from year to year. In some years, summertime monsoon storms from the Great Basin bring intense rainfall, especially to high elevations on the east side of the basin. As the climate in the northern Sierra warms, hydrologists anticipate that an increasing fraction of the precipitation in basin will fall as rain rather than snow.
Lake Tahoe was originally known as a skiing destination. The most famous ski resort in the area is Squaw Valley, USA, the site of the 1960 winter Olympics. Located about 6 miles northwest of Tahoe City, skiing is spread out over 6 different peaks and is serviced by one of the most intricate lift systems worldwide. Heavenly Resort, located in Stateline, NV, is the largest resort in the area and is completely snowboarder friendly. In addition, since Stateline is across the border into Nevada, it is also home to a few Casinos for those who feel like trying their luck. For more South Lake Tahoe information call or e-mail vacation rentals by Tahoewoods at 415.444.0777.
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