With the magazine’s “Best of Tahoe” theme in mind, this cherry-pick through Tahoe’s history was compiled with input from several longtime local residents and community leaders, with items listed in roughly chronological order....
Bud Fawcett remembers when it clicked. Just days before the 1985 Sierra Cup, a snowboarding event, a storm dumped 4 feet of snow on the Tahoe Basin. The highways shut down. Almost everything came to a standstill. Except the lifts. Fawcett, a budding snowboard photographer,...
Before the advent of modern bike parks, if kids weren’t racing BMX on a proper track, they were building janky jumps out of plywood and foot stools in driveways, sidewalks and cul-de-sacs across America. Bloody shins, missing teeth and arms in slings were badges of...
North Tahoe High School grad Andrew Shimer started working in kitchens simply as a way to keep his days free for snowboarding. In short order, shredding took on new meaning....
Cruising along Lake Tahoe’s surface provides more than just beautiful views. Via innertube or catamaran, observing the lake and its surrounding peaks from the water has propelled generations of excitement, ambition and vision....
Settlers in horse-drawn wagons once crossed the Sierra Nevada in search of a better tomorrow, lured by the glow of gold on the horizon. The mineral may not be magnetic, but it still managed to exert a pull on the rest of the country and...
Everybody wants to feel like a hero. And one of the places where that’s possible is Old Greenwood Golf Course, part of the Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee. Because the course is situated at nearly 6,000 feet in elevation, making it one of the highest...
Azure. Cerulean. Cobalt. There’s a place that paints in shades something similar to Lake Tahoe’s tropics-inspired palette of blues—and, like our little piece of paradise, is the stuff of Instagram dreams: Grace Bay. ...
Tahoe residents and visitors selected their favorite places around the lake to eat, drink, shop and play in TQ’s 2025 Best of Tahoe Readers’ Poll. Due to the expansive size of North America’s largest alpine lake, the multiple-choice poll was separated into two categories: South...
Sixty middle school children shuffle through a white concrete museum gallery flanked by paintings of Indigenous life, woven baskets and beaded bottles—some old, some new. Indigenous art, depicting a life separate from today’s urban culture, connects them to a larger, more magnificent world than they...