Lake Tahoe
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Lake Tahoe 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, and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United States. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lake in Oregon.
The south shore of Lake Tahoe in California, as seen from the west shore
Lake Tahoe from space
North Lake Tahoe aerial photo
Lake Tahoe, view of California shore from Nevada side
Kings Beach, California
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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.
Downtown Kings Beach, 2011
Bears at Kings Beach, August 2010
Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, around 1945
Panoramic view of Lake Tahoe from historic Stateline fire lookout