Lake Tahoe is an outdoor playground and the activities are endless. Whether it's hiking up to 5 lakes, biking, river rafting, fishing, golfing, water-skiing, jet-skiing, or taking down a chamber's punch, tahoe has it all. Here's a small sampling of the things you can do in the area.
Eat & Drink
Truckee:
Trokay, Cottonwood, Moody's
Tahoe City:
Sunnyside, Jakes on the Lake, Rosie's Cafe (brunch), Dam Cafe (breakfast burritos)
Play
Yacht racing is a popular sport and high-performance catamarans have been developed specifically for the lake. The design of the Alinghi 5, the defender of the 2010 America's Cup, was influenced by those racing catamarans. The best-known event runs from Geneva to the end of the lake and back.
Explore
The beauty of the shores of the lake and of the sites of many of the places near its banks has long been celebrated. On the south side the mountains of Savoy and Valais are for the most part rugged and sombre, while those of the northern shore fall in gentle vine-covered slopes, thickly set with villages and castles.