Almost one month ago, police officers and firefighters flooded into Clermont’s Emerald Lakes community to warn that rising water would make much of the neighborhood uninhabitable. The power was cut.

From here you begin the descent, past the stunning Emerald Lakes. This is the highlight of the track and a great place to pause for photos. The brilliant colour that gives them their name is caused by ...

A hand-held flashlight reveals the green color of a rough emerald from the Coscuez Emerald mine in Colombia. Photo by Eric Welch/GIA. Emerald is the green to bluish green variety of beryl, a mineral ...

The 75.47-carat Hooker Emerald was worn by Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Photo by Chip Clark, courtesy Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural ...

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Follow Highway 89 south from Tahoe City, California, (about 20 miles) or north from South Lake Tahoe, California, (about 10 miles) and you'll come across the spectacular vistas of Emerald Bay.