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Donner Ski Ranch is a budget-oriented, family owned ski area located on Donner Summit in the Tahoe National Forest of Nevada County, California. [1] [2] It is owned by Janet and Marshall Tuttle, who purchased it after it went into bankruptcy. [3] The area it is on has been used for skiing since 1937. [4]
Tahoe Donner Downhill is a small ski resort with five ski lifts and 14+ trails, in Truckee, California 4.5 mi (7.2 km) northeast of Donner Pass. There are two chairlifts, three conveyor lifts, and 14 trails.
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
The ski area usually opens 24–36 hours after receiving two to three feet of snow. [2] The downhill ski area includes two chairlifts, three surface lifts, and more than a dozen trails. [ 3 ] During the summer, the association offers activities such as golf, swimming, tennis, and hiking.
Sugar Bowl is a ski and snowboard area in northern Placer County near Norden, California along the Donner Pass of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 46 mi (74 km) west of Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80, that opened on December 15, 1939. [1]
Map of Donner Party encampments on Donner Lake. Finally, a large, early blizzard brought the remaining settlers to a halt at the edge of what is now Donner Lake, about 1,200 feet (370 m) below the steep granite summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains and 90 miles (140 km) east of their final destination, Sutter's Fort (near Sacramento). Several ...
List of Lake Tahoe ski resorts is a list of ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area that displays relevant statistics such as nearest city, peak elevation, base elevation, vertical drop, skiable acreage, average annual snowfall, and number of trails.
Donner Lake, formerly known as Truckee Lake, [2] is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake.