In 1845, Lansford Hastings published The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California, the lengthy subtitle of which promised “a description of the different routes to those countries and all necessary information relative to the equipment, supplies, and the method of traveling.” Hastings, a lawyer and...
Welcome to Tahoe Quarterly’s 2026 Best of Tahoe Photo Contest, which is accepting entries through March 18. ...
Long before pavement, survey crews or switchbacks, Tahoe’s first roads were simply trails—modest, efficient paths etched by the region’s indigenous peoples. These footways wound from the sagebrush valleys to the mountain lake and back again, with a few narrow tracks tracing the shoreline for gathering...
On the scorched, sprawling streets of Las Vegas, a boy on a bicycle looks up from his handlebars to see a hot air balloon soaring low on the horizon. The improbable ball of heat and fabric hovers gracefully in the sky, a complete counterbalance, if...
Late one Thursday evening, right around sunset, the manager of Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado notices a small aircraft descending out of the sky, its sleek carbon fiber frame reflecting the purple light of dusk....
Here in Tahoe, where many a photographer has come to visit and never left, Abe Blair is held in high regard among the best of them. ...
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. ...
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,...
Welcome to Tahoe Quarterly’s 2025 Best of Tahoe Photo Contest, now open to entries through March 14. ...