Visited 7/3/2017 - On a day trip with Jeff and our Chocolate Labradors, Summer and Skye we set out on a trip up to Echo Summit for a all-day hike up in Desolation Wilderness. While I was hiking back to Lake Aloha I went to the top of the mountain overlooking Lake Tahoe in the distance and Fallen Leaf Lake in the foreground. We live near Sacramento so Lake Tahoe is within 125 miles and we have visited the Lake many times. Being one of the most famous lakes in the world, I have to agree it is a very beautiful alpine lake. Jeff and I have both boated on the Lake and we each have our own scary stories of being out in the middle of the lake during sudden high wind storms and having a difficult time navigating back to the shore safely. We have both snow-skied and cross country skied at several of the alpine resorts that surround the Lake. Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world with the deepest blue color to it, it has it's own crayon color....Tahoe Blue! Lake Tahoe is the highest alpine lake in the United States and the 16th deepest and second largest alpine lake in the world! Commonly referred to as "Tahoe", or just "The Lake" by locals, beautiful blue Lake Tahoe is located in the Sierra Nevada between the great states of California and Nevada. As you can see by the map below more of the Lake is located in California than in Nevada. How big is Lake Tahoe? Lake Tahoe has a surface elevation of 6,229 feet, is 22 miles long, 12 miles wide, has a shoreline 72 miles in length and a surface area of 191 square miles. How deep is Lake Tahoe and how much water does it hold? With a lake surface area of 191 square miles (122,200 acres), a maximum depth of over 1,600 feet, an average depth of 989 feet, and the total capacity of Lake Tahoe is 122,160,280 acre-feet (39 trillion gallons) of water!! Its deepest points are in Crystal Bay at 1,637 feet and off Rubicon Point (1,645 feet). Surface lake temperatures range from 68° F in the summer, to 41° F during the winter. It never freezes over. The only outlet is the Truckee River at Tahoe City.
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