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, ...