The three parks, along with Rubicon Bay and McKinney Bay, give visitors a lot to see and do.
People come here for fishing, hiking, backpacking, camping, and boating of all sorts.
It was built in 1929. The Desolation Wilderness, one of the busiest wildernesses in the country, is just west of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Permits are required just to hike for the day. For overnight visitors, there are fees required by the Eldorado National Forest where the wilderness is located. On such routes as the Rubicon Trail, hikers will see volcanic pinnacles as well as evidence of glaciation, which took place sporadically over the last 2 million years in this area.