The boat launch with the deepest channel. The trail to the gorge. The farm stand that takes Venmo. The icon you've heard of and the one you haven't.
A full-service marina off Big Bear Boulevard, walking distance from the Village — pontoon and WaveRunner rentals, wakeboarding and skiing guides, fishing charters, and a tackle shop.
The marina where the Village meets the lake — pontoon and jet ski rentals, kayaking, and the Miss Liberty paddlewheel boat, a 90-minute narrated history tour dating the lake's story back to 1845.
A full-service marina on the lake's north shore — canoes, kayaks, paddleboards, pontoons, bass boats, and electric boats.
The lake's origin story in two dams: a 53-foot granite arch dam built in 1884 to irrigate Redlands' citrus groves proved too small, replaced in 1912 by a 72-foot multiple-arch dam that more than doubled the lake's capacity to 73,000 acre-feet.