If trails could talk, the Marlette Flume Trail would fill volumes. As one of the most historic, popular and scenic trails in the world, the Marlette Flume Trail represents far more than just a tourist attraction. This 4.5-mile-long ribbon of decomposed granite along a benched cliff...
Living within my 67-year-old body is a 20-year-old playing Frisbee with friends on a drought-stretched beach in North Lake Tahoe. It’s early spring 1977 and there’s zero snow at lake level. Between throws and catches, a faraway flash from across the lake, high above the...
Lake Tahoe has no major league sports team, so one could be forgiven for believing the region has never known the mutual adulation that grows between a city and a professional athlete. But that conjecture would be mistaken....
For several years, the dark wood-paneled, Asian-inspired building at the state line in Crystal Bay sat swirled in mystery, seemingly finished, but unsigned, empty and unoccupied, questions about its provenance and purpose unanswered....
Holly Hollenbeck, an interior designer from San Francisco, was on the search for a second home in Lake Tahoe. Growing up in the East Bay, she’d been coming to Tahoe for family vacations for most of her life, and after renting ski leases everywhere from...
Among the welter of celebrity golf tournaments, one stands above the rest: the American Century Championship, played annually at Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline for the past 34 years....
For generations, the community ski hill was where millions of Americans learned their first turns on snow. But in the modern era of mega-corporations, mergers and acquisitions, these cherished locations have become increasingly rare, with thousands of ski resorts across the country dwindling to a...
There’s a rich, hilarious vein of #HikeTok TikTok videos skewering Western hikers on their first visit to the Adirondack Mountains in eastern Upstate New York. The bit goes something like this: A Westerner poo-poos the “little” Adirondacks, which top out just over 5,300 feet. We scale...
Bijou means “jewel” in French, and as an adolescent boy in the early 1950s, the Bal Bijou on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore was the crown jewel of my and many others’ social and cultural lives....
Minted during the 1920s and ’30s Prohibition era, secretive speakeasies were so named for “the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors.” Today, the term also refers to the...