Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.
A West Shore bar and grill near Tahoma with a boat-in pier — lakeside dining with the option to pull up straight from the water.
Visit ↗A West Shore lakefront restaurant two miles south of Tahoe City — one of the lake's most popular waterfront dining stops.
Visit ↗The lakefront restaurant at Camp Richardson Resort, next to one of the South Shore's best sand beaches, with a full-service marina and an old-fashioned ice cream parlor on site.
Visit ↗The largest marina on Lake Tahoe and its only inland marina — a 22-acre facility with a full-service boat launch, sailboat and powerboat rentals, and charters.
Visit ↗A full-service marina in downtown Tahoe City — boat rentals with a 2-hour minimum, slip and buoy rentals, and a fuel dock.
Visit ↗The marina at Zephyr Cove Resort on the Nevada shore — Sea Ray rental boats, Yamaha WaveRunners, and parasailing, on a mile-long sandy beach four miles from the Stateline casinos.
Visit ↗A National Natural Landmark on the lake's West Shore, its glacier-carved granite framing Emerald Bay. Vikingsholm, a 38-room 1929 mansion built as a replica of a Scandinavian castle, sits at the bay's edge and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Visit ↗A 2.4-mile gondola ride from South Lake Tahoe to a 9,123-foot observation deck, with panoramic views spanning both California and Nevada.
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