Marriott Lodge at South Lake Tahoe

First Day in Lake Tahoe

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April 24th 2009
We spend the first day of the weekend exploring the Lake Tahoe area. April is the end of ski season; Heavenly closed the weekend before we arrived, but the ski resorts north of the lake were still open. We stayed at a resort just south of the Nevada-California border, in South Lake Tahoe. Our first full day, we decided to take a drive around the south portion of the lake. Unfortunately, the ... read more

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