Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (/ˈtɑːh/; Washo: dáʔaw) is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m), it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. 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)). 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. 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.

Tahoe (disambiguation)

Tahoe is Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake on the California–Nevada border.

Tahoe may also refer to:

Places

  • Tahoe City, California, formerly called Tahoe
  • Lake Tahoe (Victoria Island), lake on Victoria Island
  • Computing

  • TCP Tahoe, is a variant of Transmission Control Protocol
  • 4.3BSD-Tahoe, a release of BSD Unix
  • Tahoe Least-Authority File Store, a distributed filesystem
  • Tahoe, an initiative that led to Microsoft SharePoint
  • Entertainment

  • Lake Tahoe, a track by Kate Bush on the 2011 album 50 Words for Snow
  • Lake Tahoe (film), a 2008 Mexican drama film, directed by Fernando Eimbcke
  • Fast Times in Tahoe, a song by New Zealand band Elemeno P
  • Transport

  • The Tahoe, a 2-6-0 locomotive on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad
  • Chevrolet Tahoe, a sport utility vehicle
  • SS Tahoe, a steamship that operated on Lake Tahoe
  • USS Tahoe (CM-2), a former United States Navy minelayer
  • Food

  • Tahoe is the Indonesian name for Tofu, the soymilk curd
  • See also

  • Sunnyside–Tahoe City, California
  • SS Tahoe

    SS Tahoe was a steamship that operated on Lake Tahoe at the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th. Scuttled in 1940, the wreck presently lies in 400 feet (120 m) of water off Glenbrook, Nevada. The wreck was first visited in 2002 by a team from New Millennium Dive Expeditions (NMDE) in a record-setting high-altitude dive for Lake Tahoe. As a result of the work that NMDE did on the Tahoe site from 1999 up to their dives in 2002, Tahoe became the first maritime site in Nevada to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

    Service history

    By the end of the 19th century, Lake Tahoe had become known as a vacation resort, with a handful of hotels and communities scattered around its shores, serviced by a number of steamers crossing the lake. Lumber magnate Duane Leroy Bliss ordered the vessel from San Francisco's Union Iron Works in 1894. It was shipped by rail in pieces to Carson City, then by wagon to Glenbrook, reassembled, and launched with much acclaim on June 24, 1896.

    Podcasts:

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    Tahoe

    by: Osborne Brothers

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    Oh Ruby Ruby
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    I've done all I can do.
    Try and try to get along with you
    Still you're not satisfied
    Oh Ruby Ruby
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