Ski VacationHotels & Ski Resorts In Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA

Lake Tahoe is a top vacation spot located on the border between California and Nevada, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, its largest part lying in California. With 191,588 square miles (496,21 square kilometers), it is the largest alpine lake in North America, while with 1,645 feet (501 meters) is the second deepest lake in America. Lake Tahoe is surrounded by lofty mountains, the highest peaks being Freel Peak at 10,891 feet (3,320 meters), Monument Peak at 10,067 feet (3,068 meters), Pyramid Peak at 9,983 feet (3,043 meters), and Mt. Tallac at 9,735 feet (2,967 m). Anyone can imagine that there are hundreds of ski trails and areas for practicing winter sports, so is not surprising that Lake Tahoe is one of the most popular ski resorts in USA. In fact, the vacation spot around Lake Tahoe is divided in South Lake Tahoe and North Lake Tahoe, both of them featuring several classy ski resorts as following: in south are Heavenly Ski Resort (with 91 trails and 30 lifts), Kirkwood Ski Resort (with 65 trails and 12 lifts), and Sierra at Tahoe(with 46 trails and 12 lifts), while the northern side comprises even more places to go - Alpine Meadows (with 100 trails and 14 lifts), Boreal Ridge (with 41 trails and 11 lifts), Diamond Peak (with 30 trails and 6 lifts), Donner Ski Ranch (with 40 trails and 6 lifts), Granlibakken (with 1 trail and 1 lift), Mt. Rose (with 60 trails and 8 lifts), Northstar at Tahoe (with 70 trails and 17 lifts), Ski Homewood (with 56 trails and 8 lifts), Soda Springs (with 16 trails and 2 lifts), Squaw Valley USA (with countless trails on 4,000 acres and 33 lifts), Sugar Bowl (with 84 trails and 13 lifts), and Tahoe Donner (with 14 trails and 3 lifts).

Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowboarding are the main activities in winter, but all vacation resorts in area offer many other tourist attractions. Those which are settled in Nevada feature several casino (gambling is legal in this state), and as a result it are visited by many tourists who want to combine some great action on the slopes with exciting moments spent in a luxury casino. Along with gambling, the points of interest around Lake Tahoe are plentiful: in summer can be practiced numerous water sports (water-ski, swimming, fishing, boating) and outdoor activities on the surrounding regions, ridges and slopes (hiking, climbing, mountain biking, nature walking, picnic, river rafting, visits to historical sites like Tallac Historic Site, ballooning, golf, wine tours in California, horseback riding and much more), while in winter can be enjoyed great moments in spa centers, excursions with the Heavenly Aerial Tram, sightseeing, shopping, fine dining in classy restaurants and others.

The entire region around Lake Tahoe is a magnet attracting tourists from entire USA and even from abroad, and as a result there have been developed plenty of accommodations including resorts, vacation rental properties and hotels of all categories: high-end resort complexes like Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, Harrah's Lake Tahoe Hotel, Harveys Lake Tahoe Casino & Resort Hotel, 3-star hotels such as Horizon Casino Resort Hotel, and budget lodgings like Motel 6 Lake Tahoe.

Due to the fact that Lake Tahoe is a year-round vacation spot, hotels in the region are pretty crowded and both in summer and in winter peak season finding a free room could be a difficult task. The number of accommodation providers is large, so the competition between them is acerb, this being the motive why on the travel scene are available promotional ski packages (tourists can book itstarting with July-August), discount room rates for early booking, and special bonuses like kids stay free, free breakfast, free shuttle transportation, and others.

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