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Article: DOWNHILL UPGRADE REFURBISHED BASE AREA LURES SKIERS, BOARDERS TO SOUTH LAKE TAHOE.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2004
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Byline: Tim Hunt Alameda Newspaper Group
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - Few places can match Lake Tahoe for scenic beauty.
The huge, dazzling, blue lake is surrounded by forested mountains and granite cliffs, and the scene is crowned by clear skies much of the year.
The first sight of Lake Tahoe from Echo Pass on Highway 50 often prompts visitors to pull off the narrow highway and gaze at this natural wonder.
But that beauty gives way to tawdriness when motorists approach the heart of South Lake Tahoe. Motel after motel, low-end restaurants and rental shops, most built 40 or 50 years ago, flank much of Highway 50 from its intersection with ...
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