Black Bear Inn Bed and Breakfast and Cabins is nestled on a wooded acre at the base of Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe where you can enjoy luxury accommodations in a rustic, mountain setting. The Inn has a main lodge, three private cabins and a gazebo with an outdoor hot tub on beautifully landscaped pine-shaded grounds.

The magnificent lobby or Great Room has a 34-foot-high cathedral ceiling, which is supported by massive cut logs and is graced by an equally stunning river rock fireplace that rises from floor to ceiling. Giant picture windows, chandeliers, a grand piano, and rustic Western collectibles from the hosts' native state of Texas make this room the focal point of the lodge.

The innkeepers serve a sumptuous full gourmet breakfast in the morning and wine and appetizers in the afternoon in the Great Room.

The Lake Tahoe area offers numerous activities year round. Golf, tennis, horseback riding, fishing and boat cruises on the lake is a great way to spend a summer day. Visit the nearby historic towns of Truckee, Virginia City and Placerville, or tour the Apple Hill wineries. Wintertime is when Tahoe shows off its nineteen ski resorts, including Heavenly Valley, Squaw Valley and Kirkwood. Tahoe winters are famous for huge dumps of light powder and beautiful blue skies.

Owners Jerry Birdwell and Kevin Chandler want nothing further for their guests than to feel more comfortable at the Black Bear Inn than they do in their own homes. Come experience the pristine beauty of the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe's premiere bed and breakfast.

The main lodge has five generous bed and breakfast guest rooms, each with a private bath and gas fireplace. The Seneca and the Washoe rooms, with pine furniture, a handmade mesquite headboard and two club chairs, are located on the main floor. Up the beautiful pine stairway are three rooms: Sequoia, the largest, with a sitting area, wet bar, vaulted ceiling and a view of the cabins and trees, Fallen Leaf, with a private garden-view sitting balcony, and the Frontier, the most rustic room because it has one wall made from the rough gray boards of an old sharecropper's cabin.

Three private cabins of varying sizes and a hot tub gazebo sit on the back grounds beneath the pine trees. The Bonanza Trail is a duplex containing two separate rooms, the Stagecoach and Black Bart. Snowshoe Thompson and Sutter cabins offer spacious accommodations each with more than 900 sq. ft., separate bedrooms, kitchenette and exceptional views.

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