Tucked into Truckee’s Martis Valley on a plot of 906 acres, the land that is now Lahontan Golf Club was once a rural property of ponds, rolling meadows and towering forests used mainly for grazing cows. In the 1990s, it was developed into the area’s...
Rocks are not widely recognized for their storytelling abilities, but the account of Lake Tahoe’s formation is written in stone if one knows where to look. ...
Perched above the turquoise expanse of Lake Tahoe’s East Shore is a place where history whispers from every granite stone and wooden beam. ...
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...