View Of Chimney Beach Lake Tahoe

A view across pristine Lake Tahoe from a rocky shore in Nevada, looking westward to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Lake Tahoe is a freshwater lake i...
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A view across pristine Lake Tahoe from a rocky shore in Nevada, looking westward to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Lake Tahoe is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at 6,225 ft, it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft, it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United States. Its depth is 1,645 ft, making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lake in Oregon (1,949 ft)

The lake was formed about two million years ago as part of the Lake Tahoe Basin, and its modern extent was shaped during the ice ages. It is known for the clarity of its water and the panorama of surrounding mountains on all sides. The area surrounding the lake is also referred to as Lake Tahoe, or simply Tahoe. More than 75% of the lake's watershed is national forest land, covered by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the United States Forest Service.
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