Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is an alpine lake in the Sierra-Nevada mountains. It is bordered to the east by the U.S. State of Nevada, and on the west by California. The California side has a lot more laws, but both sides are equally beautiful. It's surface elevation is 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America.[4] Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lake (1,945 ft (593 m)).[1] Additionally, Lake Tahoe is the sixth largest lake by volume in the United States at 122,160,280 acre·ft (150,682,490 dam3), behind the five Great Lakes. . The lake was formed about 2 million years ago and is a part of the Lake Tahoe Basin with the modern lake being shaped during the ice ages. It is known for the clarity of its water and the panorama of surrounding mountains on all sides.[5] 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, comprising the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the United States Forest Service. It's veru great lake in the United States.