Spreckels Lake

2009 | Best Place to Race Your Model Yacht

Spreckels Lake was created in 1903 as a place for the town'scitizenry to sail their model yachts, a charming notion that hasendured through a century of war, strife, and economic deprivation. Onany given Sunday, you're likely to see a regatta of scale-modelsteamboats, clippers, barges, trawlers, runabouts, ferries, and tugs-- even submarines -- maneuvering around the lake'sthousand-foot girth and the big concrete turtle that emerges from itsshallow depths. Many of the boats... More »