Welcome to D. L. Bliss State Park
D. L. Bliss and Emerald Bay State Parks include more than six miles of magnificent Lake Tahoe’s west shore, covering 1,830 acres in California’s Sierra Nevada. D. L. Bliss State Park is named for a pioneering lumberman, railroad owner and banker from the region. The Bliss family donated 744 acres to the California State Park System in 1929. The nucleus of Emerald Bay State Park, including Vikingsholm, was sold to the State for half the appraised value by Placerville lumberman Harvey West in 1953. Summer temperatures at Tahoe range from about 75 degrees during the day to the low 40s at night. Winter temperatures average from a high of 40 to a low of 20 degrees. Depending on the weather, the parks are open from late May through September and are closed during the winter.


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