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Lake
Tahoe
-- Just The Facts
Lake Tahoe is a truly wonderful natural phenomenon.
Surrounded by mountains, the present day lake sits in a valley
at an elevation of 6,229 feet. It is the highest lake of its
size in the United States. It is the third deepest lake in North
America and the tenth deepest lake in the world.
Lake Tahoe is 22 miles in length and 12 miles in width and covers
a surface area of 191 square miles. The consistently beautiful
shoreline is 71 miles, with the California shoreline being 42
miles and the Nevada shoreline being 29 miles.
This breathtakingly blue lake is so clear that in some places
objects can be seen to depths of 75 feet! The reason the lake
is so blue is that the thin, clear mountain air allows the lake's
pure, crystalline water to reflect the blue sky above. The lake
can also appear red during sunsets or gray-black during storms.
The average annual rainfall in the Lake Tahoe Basin is 8.3 inches
and the average annual snowfall is 216 inches or 18 feet, for
a total annual precipitation of 30 inches. (The ski areas average
350 - 600 inches of snow per year!) Most of the snow and rain
falls directly into the lake or drains through lakeside marshes
and meadows that act as water filtering systems, preserving the
purity of the water.
Sixty-three streams flow into Lake Tahoe, but the Truckee River
is the only one that flows out, past Reno and into Pyramid Lake.
The maximum depth is 1,645 feet, near Crystal Bay, and the average
depth is 989 feet. The water shed of Lake Tahoe is 519 square
miles. The lake holds over 39 trillion gallons of water, enough
to cover a flat area the size of California to a depth of 14 inches.
If drained, it would take 700 years to refill the lake!
Lake Tahoe loses much if its water to evaporation. 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.
The maximum surface water temperature is 68 degrees F. and the
minimum surface water temperature is 41 degrees F. Below 600 feet,
the lake's water is extremely cold, staying at 39 degrees F. year-round.
And for the curious, Lake Tahoe never freezes because the huge
volume of lake water is always in motion. Each winter, the cold
water on the surface sinks while warm water rises from the deep.
Some protected inlets like Emerald Bay have been covered with
a layer of ice at times.
WOW! Choose a ramp and launch out into this beautiful natural
blue wonder!
SOUTH & EAST
SHORES
Anchorage
Marina
SR. 89, 25 miles north of Stateline
 530-542-6570
Cave Rock
U.S. HWY 50 north of Zephyr Cove
775-831-0494
Lakeside Marina
End of Park Avenue off U.S. HWY 50
Stateline
530-541-6626
Round Hill Pines
Off U.S. HWY 50 at Round Hill
775-588-3055
no boat launch ramp
Sand Harbor Boat
Ramp
SR 28, 4 miles south of Incline Village
775-831-0494
South Lake Tahoe
Recreation
Area
& Boat Ramp
Lakeview Avenue, off U.S. HWY 50
Stateline
530-542-6055
Ski Run Marina
Ski Run Blvd., off U.S. HWY 50
530-544-9500
no boat launch ramp
Tahoe Keys
Marina
Tahoe Keys Blvd., off U.S. HWY 50
South Lake Tahoe
530-541-2155
Timber Cove Marina
3411 Lake Tahoe Blvd. / U.S. HWY 50
Stateline
530-544-2942
Zephyr Cove Marina
Off U.S. HWY 50 at Zephyr Cove
Zephyr Cove
775-588-3833
no boat launch ramp |
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NORTH & WEST
SHORES
Homewood
Marina High & Dry
SR 89
Homewood
530-525-5966
Kings Beach Recreation
Area
Bottom of Coon Road
Kings Beach
530-546-7248
Lake Forest Boat
Ramp
SR 28 north of Tahoe City
530-583-3796
North Tahoe Marina
SR 28 Tahoe Vista
530-546-8248
Obexer's Marina & Boat
Launch
SR 89
Homewood
530-525-7962
Sierra Boat Company,
Inc.
SR 28 Carnelian Bay
530-546-2552
Sunnyside Marina
SR 89, 2 miles south of Tahoe City
530-583-7201
Tahoe City Marina
Tahoe Yacht Harbor
700 North Lake Blvd.
Tahoe City
530-583-1039 |
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