07/12/2026
🗺️ There is something almost otherworldly about…
📍 Lake Tahoe, CA 🌊
I was spoiled to grow up just an hour away and later marry the love of my life in this magical place. Over the years, we’ve made endless memories here as a family, so naturally, this is a photograph I hope to one day have hanging on my own walls.
A little history, if you’ve never been…
Sitting more than 6,200 feet above sea level and stretching between California and Nevada, Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America and, at 1,645 feet deep, the second-deepest lake in the United States. Its legendary clarity and extraordinary depth give the water that unmistakable blue that never quite looks real, even when you’re standing right in front of it.
More than two million years old, Tahoe holds nearly 39 trillion gallons of water and is fed by 63 streams, with only one, the Truckee River, flowing out.
And tucked along the shores of Emerald Bay where this photo was taken by me during a hike sits Vikingsholm, a remarkable Scandinavian-inspired home built in the late 1920s as the summer retreat of Lora Josephine Knight. Two hundred workers helped hand-hew its timbers, carve its details and forge its hinges and latches, with much of the material sourced from the Tahoe Basin. Today, it’s considered one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in the Western Hemisphere and it has remained preserved as a place you can tour.
There is a wildness and mystique here that feels almost as ancient as the lake itself. A winter playground for avid skiers and a world of endless hikes, beaches and adventure in the summer, Lake Tahoe offers one of the most diverse mountain lifestyles I’ve ever experienced.
Lake Tahoe, captured along the way.
📸 Coast to Coast & Co.
