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Lake Tahoe (/ ˈ t ɑː h oʊ /; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.Lying at 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, [4] and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km 3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Many other New Zealand lakes have the tautological "Lake Roto-" form) [15] Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California ('Lake Lake' – Washo) [3] Lake Võrtsjärv, Estonia, järv – lake in Estonian. Lake Windermere, England ('Winander Mere (Lake)' in Old Norse and Old English; Loch Lomond Lake, near Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the television western Bonanza, which housed the land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family.The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1968 until 2004.
Bears at Kings Beach, August 2010 Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, around 1945. Kings Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. The population was 3,563 at the 2020 census. [4] The town's post office was erected in 1937. The area is named after its first postmaster, Joe King. [5]
The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
South Lake Tahoe is the most populous incorporated city in El Dorado County, California, United States, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The city's population was 21,330 at the 2020 census, down from 21,403 at the 2010 census.
It lies on Lake Tahoe at the mouth of Meeks Creek, at an elevation of 6240 feet (1902 m). [1] The place is named for John Meeks, who owned the land. [1] The Meeks brothers baled 25 tons of wild hay in the meadows at the mouth of Meeks Creek in 1862. [2]