Lake Tahoe

Edgewood Tahoe Resort

Stateline lakefront (South Shore)

The South Shore's five-star flagship — a timber-and-glass lakefront lodge on the famous Edgewood golf course, with every room facing water or fairway, a destination spa, and the lake's best sunset bar.

The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe

Northstar mid-mountain (North Shore)

California's only ski-in/ski-out five-star — a slopeside stone-and-timber fortress mid-mountain at Northstar, with a 17,000-square-foot spa, firepit terraces, gondola access to the village, and summer alpine lawns.

Everline Resort & Spa, Lake Tahoe

Olympic Valley (Palisades Tahoe)

Olympic Valley's full-service resort (the former Resort at Squaw Creek, reborn) — 405 rooms and suites under the Palisades peaks, with a waterfall pool complex, golf, cross-country trails, and its own chairlift to the mountain.

Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa & Casino

Incline Village lakefront (North Shore)

The North Shore's lakefront grande dame in Incline Village — a private beach with its famous over-water Lone Eagle Grille, firepits on the sand, a boutique casino under the lodge roof, and Sand Harbor ten minutes away.

The Landing Lake Tahoe Resort & Spa

Lakeside Beach, South Lake Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe's boutique on the beach — an 82-room lakefront lodge across from its own stretch of sand, with fireplaces in every room, a rooftop-style lake-view restaurant, heated pool, and walkable Stateline evenings.

Harrah's Lake Tahoe Resort & Casino

Stateline casino corridor (South Shore)

The Stateline classic — an 18-story casino resort where every room is an oversized suite-style double with two full baths and mountain or lake views, the gaming floor never closes, and the gondola is a block's walk.

Basecamp South Lake Tahoe

Stateline-adjacent, South Lake Tahoe

The adventure-motel reinvention — a vintage South Lake motor lodge turned design-forward basecamp, with bunk and glamping-themed rooms, a sociable beer garden and firepits, and the gondola a short walk away. Budget done stylishly.

Heavenly Mountain Resort & Gondola

Tahoe's biggest mountain, straddling two states — 4,800 skiable acres in winter, and year-round gondola rides from South Lake Tahoe's village to a 9,123-foot observation deck with the lake filling the horizon.

Emerald Bay State Park & Vikingsholm

Tahoe's postcard — a glacier-carved bay of surreal green-blue water around the lake's only island, with a 1929 Scandinavian castle at its foot. Overlooks, the Vikingsholm trail, summer castle tours, and kayak-in camping.

M.S. Dixie II Emerald Bay Cruise

Tahoe's grand paddle-wheeler — daytime and sunset dinner cruises from Zephyr Cove across the cobalt to Emerald Bay, with narration, full bars, and the only easy way to see the castle and island from the water.

Sand Harbor State Park

Tahoe's most beautiful beach — Caribbean-clear coves between granite boulders on the Nevada east shore, with white sand, kayak rentals, a boulder-scramble shoreline, and July's lakeside Shakespeare Festival.

Palisades Tahoe & Aerial Tram

The 1960 Olympic mountain — 6,000 acres of legendary steeps across two connected valleys, North America's only ski-resort aerial tram gliding to High Camp's 8,200-foot pool deck, and summers of alpine hiking.

Northstar California Resort

Tahoe's polished family mountain — 3,170 groomed-to-silk acres above a pedestrian village with an ice rink and s'mores hour, plus summer lift-served mountain biking that ranks with the West's best parks.

Thunderbird Lodge Tour

Tahoe's most eccentric Gilded Age estate — a 1936 stone castle on the secret east shore, with a 600-foot underground tunnel to the boathouse of the legendary mahogany yacht Thunderbird. Summer tours only; book early.

Tallac Historic Site

Tahoe's Gilded Age, preserved in the pines — three grand 1890s-1920s estates on a walkable lakefront stretch of South Shore, with summer museum tours, gardens, a brilliant beach, and the Valhalla boathouse theater's festival.

Lake Tahoe Balloons

The world's only hot-air balloon flight launched and landed on water — lift off from a custom catamaran mid-lake at sunrise, float above the cobalt with the whole Sierra in view, and toast the landing back on deck.

Clearly Tahoe Clear Kayak Tours

Paddle a transparent kayak over Tahoe's glass — guided small-group tours in clear-bottom boats where boulders, trout, and hundred-foot visibility glide beneath your feet; sunset and LED-lit night paddles included.

Donner Memorial State Park

The Sierra's most sobering story, told where it happened — the Donner Party's 1846 winter camp beside its namesake alpine lake, with a modern museum, the Pioneer Monument's 22-foot snow-depth pedestal, and summer beaches.

Tahoe East Shore Trail

Three paved miles hanging over the lake's clearest water — a stunning bike-and-stroll path from Incline Village to Sand Harbor, with boulder coves below, bridges cantilevered off the granite, and the parking-free way into the famous beach.

Heavenly Village & Stateline

South Lake Tahoe's walkable heart — the gondola's base village of shops, restaurants, cinema, and winter ice rink, flowing straight into Stateline's Nevada casinos: dinner, a show, and a blackjack nightcap in one stroll.