Lakes

  • Lake Tahoe in summer

    Tahoe in the summer: To go or not to go?

    Lake Tahoe is not just a winter destination. There is plenty to do in Tahoe in summer. Here are some things to do in the largest alpine lake when it's warm up there....
  • Windsor Lake, Denver in fall

    Fall Colors around Windsor Lake in Denver

    As we move into the thick of fall, here’s looking back on some fall color from Colorado from a few years ago. These are pictures from Windsor Lake in Denver, Colorado. It was a November day. Some trees had already lost its leaves but there still was a lot of...
  • A glimpse of Donner Lake

    Donner Lake is one of California’s alpine lakes. This lake that lies on the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range can be seen from Interstate 80 as it passes through the high country. I-80 is one of those cross-country highways in the US, this one beginning at San Francisco on the...
  • Capitol Lake in Olympia

    A few weeks back we had a sneak peek at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, WA, here on Tipsy from the TRIP. Now, let us see the lake that the Capitol building looks at every single day of the year — The Capitol Lake. When we walked around...
  • Big and Beautiful Shasta Lake

    Shasta Lake This is Shasta Lake. Shasta lies in northern California and also dons the sash of the largest reservoir in the state. It lies in the Shasta – Trinity National Forest Area and is not far away from Mt. Shasta, a volcano of the Cascade Range. The first...
  • Folsom Lake, California

    Our World: Folsom Lake

    The weekend before last we drove through Patterson Pass Road and saw what the rains had done to the Diablo Range this winter. Then last weekend we went east to see Folsom Lake, a reservoir whose level has been an indication of how bad California’s-drought-of-five-years has been. Folsom Lake, which...
  • A brush with California’s volcanic and glacial past

    There’s a state on the west coast of the United States that’s known for its beaches, its wine country, it’s Pacific Coast drives, it’s entertainment capital, even its history of earthquakes. What a lot of people don’t talk about is that California has had many a brush with volcanic...
  • Maroon Bells, Colorado

    Postcarded at Maroon Bells

    Maroon Bells Some people say it is the most photographed place in North America, some others say it is the most photographed place in the state of Colorado. Whatever it may be, we went to see Maroon Bells only because my bestie who lives in Colorado told me it...
  • Pinto Lake, Watsonville, CA

    Pinto Lake: Perfect for a Quiet Summer Day

    A lake in Watsonville was not exactly on my list of places-to-see in California. But one day we decided to go strawberry picking and landed up in a farm in Watsonville. Once we were done with the farm activity, we had more time on us, so we thought we’d...
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