South Lake Tahoe is a city in El Dorado County, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The population was 23,609 at the 2000 census. The east end of the city, on the California-Nevada state line, is mainly geared towards tourism, with T-shirt shops, restaurants, hotels, and Heavenly Mountain Resort with the Nevada casinos just across the state line in Stateline, Nevada. The city extends about five miles west-southwest along U.S. Route 50, also known as Lake Tahoe Blvd. The western end of town is mainly residential, and clusters around "The Y" (new intersection October 2008), the X-shaped intersection of US 50, State Route 89, and the continuation of Lake Tahoe Boulevard after it loses its Federal highway designation.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.5 square miles, of which, 10.1 square miles of it is land and 6.4 square miles of it is water. Its elevation is about 6,260 feet.
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City of South Lake Tahoe, CA official site
City of South Lake Tahoe, CA Chamber of Commerce
City of South Lake Tahoe, CA newspaper
County of South Lake Tahoe, CA official site
State of California official site