![]() ![]() Movies Filmed at Lake Tahoe: Indian Love Call, starring Jeanette McDonald, was the first movie to be filmed at Lake Tahoe in the 1920’s.Famous Residents: Famous neighbors include and have included Charles Bronson, Cher, Natalie Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minelli, Wayne Newton and the Captain and Tennile.Fishing: The biggest fish ever caught in Lake Tahoe, a Mackinaw lake trout, weighed 37 pounds and 6 ounces.Lake Tahoe’s greatest vertical drop is 3,600 feet. The longest ski run in the area is 5.5 miles long. Skiing: Skiers can hit the slopes on one of the 182 ski trails in the midst of more than 8,800 total ski resort acres.Together, they have a total of 7,051 slot machines and 411 game tables. Gaming: There are 5 casinos in the South Lake Tahoe area.Weather in the Sierras can be unpredictable - snow, for example, has fallen in every month and averages 420 inches a year.Lake Tahoe never freezes over in the winter this is due to the constant 39 degrees Fahrenheit maintained at depths below 700 feet, largely because of the constant movement and volume of water. Although the summer’s heat can warm the upper 12 feet to a comfortable 68 degrees Fahrenheit.If the water that evaporates from the Lake every 24 hours could be recovered, it would supply the daily requirements of a city the size of Los Angeles. Lake Tahoe loses much of its water to evaporation.If Lake Tahoe was completely drained, it would cover a flat area the size of California to a depth of 14 inches, but would take over 700 years to refill.The estimated 39.75 trillion gallons of water contained in the lake is 99.9 percent pure, with visibility to 75 feet below the surface.The average depth of Lake Tahoe is 989 feet. (Lake Baikal, in Russia, is the deepest at over 4,600 feet.) Tahoe’s deepest point is 1,645 feet near Crystal Bay. Lake Tahoe is the third deepest lake in North America and the tenth deepest in the world.The highest point in the Tahoe Basin is Freel Peak at 10,881 feet. Tallac at 9,735 feet is the highest peak rising from the shoreline. The Lake’s surface is 6,226.95 feet above sea level and the natural rim is 6,223 feet above sea level, making it the highest Lake of its size in the United States.Lake Tahoe is 2/3 in California and 1/3 in the State of Nevada.Lake Tahoe is located 200 miles northeast of San Francisco, CA.63 Streams feed into Lake Tahoe but only one, the Truckee River at Fanny Bridge, feed out into Reno’s Pyrmid Lake. Glaciers carved out what is now Fallen Leaf Lake, Emerald Bay and Cascade Lake. Geologically, Lake Tahoe is a “young lake” having been formed 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. Lake Tahoe is the North American Continent’s largest Alpine lake and is 22 miles long, 12 miles wide, and covers a surface area of 191.6 square miles, and has 72 miles of shoreline. As for the nightlife there’s plenty of gaming, fine dining at great restaurants and movie theaters. In the winter you’ll find world class skiing and snowboarding, trails for snow mobiling, awesome snowshoeing and ice skating. ![]() Water skiing, boating, hiking, biking, golfing, fishing, camping and rock climbing. The South Shore offers both summer and winter activities. There are plenty of choice properties for all budgets. From high end Lake Front properties to lovely Chalets built in the early 1900’s. South Lake Tahoe is the most affordable side of the lake with a number of diverse neighborhoods to choose from. What’s wonderful about our winters, is Tahoe receives approximately 274 days of sunshine per year. Snowfall averages 125 inches at lake level and the upper elevations get as much as 500 inches per year. South Lake Tahoe’s population is approximately 34,000 year round. ![]()
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