Best-Value Neighborhoods in Kings Beach, CA

Kings Beach is the north shore's working heart, and it is named for a gambler. Joe King arrived from Texas in 1922 and built the town's first commercial core near the sand. The beloved story that he won the whole beach in an all-night poker game is legend, and historians lean toward the tamer truth that he and his partner won back their purchase money the night they bought it. Either way, his name stuck when the post office opened in 1937. ... See Full Page