Camping at Lake Tahoe - Emerald Bay

We camped at this beautiful site in Lake Tahoe - Emerald Bay State Park (Eagle Point Campground). We are at site# 57. This is the best camp site I have so far visited. Lots tall trees around the site, we build our tent in this place that no one can see us, it's better than hotel rooms. We can see the whole Lake Tahoe and whole Emerald Bay by walking 3 minutes. We stayed this site for 2 nites.

We first visited Truckee town that is very interesting to tour around to see things "old" and elegant..then we drive along Truckee river that is completely packed with people to play rafting, it caused water (river) traffic jam, some people swimming in the river, some standing in the water try to push the raft (all made by rubber), some laughing loud under the full sun and surrounded by the tall Tahoe trees. All of them are full of happiness and joy... but we have been super slowly driving on the road along the Truckee river. Finally we checked in our camp site at 3:30pm, later, cooked dinner at the site and enjoy of doing nothing.

Second day, we drive to South Tahoe City. Lot's people on this 4th of July, people starting to put chairs, blankets on all those "good spot" to view tonites fireworks around the lake. We have biked for 2 beaches and seen all of them doing the same thing, to occupy a spot to view the fireworks. So we biked and sight seeing some more places, people, and admired those expensive but super small houses next to the water front...

After lunch at Taco Bell (for some reason, we wanted to eat this crunchy taco), we decide to find a way to go down to the bottom of Emerald Bay, never been there..
So, we find this place that so many cars are parking there, it's "Vikingsholm", that's the place we can "walk" down to the bottom of the Emerald Bay (no car can drive down except service cars). So we walked about 2 miles down, easy. But wasn't so easy when we climb back up later.. and it "worth it".

Then we found this Eagle Lake area is very fun too, that is not too far from the parking area of Vikingholm. Very clean and nice area to rest and picnic. We finished half of the watermelon there. There's big waterfall starts this place that falls into Emerald Bay. Very good place that I never been before..we cooked dinner again at the campsite with potable stove, weather is too dry to burn wood and cook.

What's the bad thing? I wish we have thicker "matterss" underneath..sleeping on the ground is still hard with 2 layers of padding...

And, next time, we will book this camp site early (7 months ealy) and pick site#56 as first choice. This site has lake view and 2 camp fire rings. People camped here watched 3 fireworks alone the Lake last night!! Web: parks.ca.gov.