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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 ...
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 ...
The Edgewood Tahoe Resort golf course lies along the Lake Tahoe shoreline. The Heavenly Mountain Resort ski area is on the California–Nevada border. Another well-known feature of Stateline is Kingsbury Grade, which runs up and over a mountain pass, rising from Lake Tahoe and dropping down to the Carson Valley on the other side. Most of ...
View northward from the south end of SR 28 in northwestern Douglas County, October 2015. SR 28 begins at Spooner Junction, a T intersection with US 50 (also known as the Lincoln Highway) and SR 28 on the border between the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest and the Lake Tahoe – Nevada State Park in northwestern Douglas County, just south of Spooner Lake.
Stateline (formerly Lakeside and Laphams) [2] [3] is a former unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, now incorporated into South Lake Tahoe, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 6,279 feet (1914 m) ASL. [1] As its name suggests, it is at the state line with Nevada, and mirrors the adjacent community of the same name.
Tahoe Keys is a private waterfront community within the city of South Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 6,240 feet (1,900 m). [ 1 ] The Tahoe Keys is a 740-acre (300 ha) marina community laced with eleven miles of inland waterways located at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe in South Lake Tahoe, California.
A road connecting Lake Tahoe to the Carson Valley, situated in the approximate location of today's SR 207, appears on Nevada state maps as early as 1919. [4] By 1929, this unimproved road was included in the state highway system as the northwestern end of the former SR 19 , a longer route stretching from Lake Tahoe through Minden and south to ...
One point of interest along California State Route 89 includes the Pony Express remount station in Woodfords, the Lake Tahoe Outlet Gates in Tahoe City (control of these gates was the source of the two-decade "Tahoe Water War" between lakeshore owners and downstream Truckee River water users), Plumas-Eureka State Park (containing Johnsville, a ...