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Lake Tahoe is located in the Sierra Nevada of both California and Nevada. A list of notable mountains that surround the lake is shown below. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
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.
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a ski resort located on the California–Nevada border in southeastern Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. It opened for business on December 15, 1955 [1] and has 97 runs and 30 lifts that are spread between California and Nevada and four base facilities. The resort has 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) within its ...
Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley , but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word " squaw ".
Lake Tahoe inflow streams contribute 310,000 acre-feet (0.38 km 3) of the 530,000 acre-feet (0.65 km 3) of water that flows through Lake Tahoe every year. [2] The list, below, groups rivers and creeks that flow into the lake by their locations on the north, east, south and west shores, in a clockwise order.
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.
Alpine Meadows is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Alpine Meadows, California.Near the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe, it offers 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) of skiable terrain, 13 different lifts, and a vertical drop of 1,802 feet (549 m).
The Ong is a creature from Washoe mythology, said to haunt the waters of what is now known as Lake Tahoe.The creature was feared by the Washoe people, who believed it preyed on individuals who wandered too close to the lake, dragging them to its nest in the center of the lake where they would be consumed.