Across Lake Almanor's miles of cobalt blue water, the swirls of trout on the surface looked like whirlpools. Only the big ones can do that. All the summer tourists were gone, the morning air was brisk ...

Lake Tahoe will always be a top summer vacation destination, but with peak season crowds (and prices), it can feel more like a zoo than a peaceful nature escape. Enter Lake Almanor, an under-the-radar ...

Like a fickle change in a breeze, a bit of unpredictable weirdness can swing a vacation trip this way or that. It has been that way this past week at Lake Almanor, the huge, beautiful lake that backs ...