However, as peaceful as that sounds, Big Bear is one of the most action-packed lakes in California. Warm weather activities include fishing tournaments, water sports rentals, mountain biking ...

Lake Tahoe provides an iconic California ... high speeds are allowed in the middle of the lake for water sports. If hiking is more your thing, consider making the 10.9-mile trek to the Slide ...

For one thing, it’s quite high, elevated at ... water interspersing the chilly mountain peaks. Elsinore is a beautiful, completely natural freshwater lake in California’s deep south.

Ski patrollers from mountain resorts in California, Nevada, and Colorado are at Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierra, ...

Just decades ago, it was hard to walk around many of California's alpine lakes without tripping over these diminutive “mountain gnomes.” But today these hardy survivors of freezing, high-elevation ...