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In South Lake Tahoe , the lakeside's
largest community, ranks of restaurants, modest motels, and pine-bound
cottages stand cheek by jowl with the high-rise gambling dens
of Stateline, just across the border in Nevada. If you happen
to lose your money at the tables and slot machines, you can always
explore the beautiful hiking trails, parks and beaches that populate
the surrounding area.
Not far away, the prettiest part of the lake is
along the southwest shore, at Emerald Bay State Park
, ten miles from South Lake Tahoe, which has a number of good
shoreline campgrounds . A mile from the parking
lot, Vikingsholm is an unlikely reproduction Viking castle (summer
daily 10am-4pm, hourly tours; $3). In Sugar Pine Point
State Park , two miles north, the huge Ehrman
Mansion (daily 11am-4pm; $3) is decorated in Thirties-era
furnishings; the extensive lakefront grounds were seen in The
Godfather II .
The rest of the 75-mile drive is
lovely enough, though certainly not the "most beautiful drive
in America" as one locally produced brochure touts; a better
way to see it is to take a paddlewheel boat cruise
on the MS Dixie II , from Zephyr Cove (three departures daily
in summer, one in winter, call for times; $23-49; tel 775/588-3508,
), reached on a free shuttle from South Lake Tahoe, or sign up
for other boat tours through one of the larger casinos.
