A simple log cabin on the lake shore in the middle of town, the Watson Cabin is the oldest building still standing on its original site in Tahoe City. The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society maintains it as a house museum, open most afternoons in summer with volunteer docents who walk visitors through the rooms.
The cabin is small enough to see in 20 minutes but gives a vivid sense of what life in this remote mountain settlement looked like before the highways and the resorts arrived.