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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The popular Tallac Historic Site will officially open for the summer season on Memorial Day Weekend, starting Saturday, May 29 and going through Sunday, September 26.
Nestled in a 250-year old Jeffrey Pine grove on 150 acres of National Forest System lands, the Tallac Historic Site features the Baldwin-Pope Estates, and Heller Estate, including a collection of 19 structures that are listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The once rustic luxury resort getaway for wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families is made up of main houses, cabins, caretaker and
servants quarters, service and storage units, and a boathouse. The site has been painstakingly preserved, restored, and maintained by a joint partnership between the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and the non-profit interpretive partner, Tahoe Heritage Foundation.
Interactive Reading Forest project installed at Taylor Creek
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Column: The future of recreation and tourism at Lake Tahoe
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By Joanne S. Marchetta, TRPA
Although Lake Tahoe’s economy has facets like building trades, health care, education, and a growing number of gig and remote workers, to name a few the foundation of our region’s $5 billion economy is undeniably tourism. Equally apparent is that visitation is impacting Tahoe’s environment and our communities. To put it plainly, amazing places like this can be “loved to death.” After COVID significantly boosted participation in outdoor recreation last year, national surveys show that more than 60 percent of new participants say they expect to continue their outdoor activities post-pandemic. As tourism expands globally and the populations of northern California and northern Nevada continue to grow, the way outdoor recreation and tourism is managed here needs to change.
Guest column
Although Lake Tahoe’s economy has facets like building trades, health care, education, and a growing number of gig and remote workers, to name a few the foundation of our region’s $5 billion economy is undeniably tourism. Equally apparent is that visitation is impacting Tahoe’s environment and our communities.
Joanne S. Marchetta
To put it plainly, amazing places like this can be “loved to death.”
After COVID significantly boosted participation in outdoor recreation last year, national surveys show that more than 60% of new participants say they expect to continue their outdoor activities post-pandemic. As tourism expands globally and the populations of northern California and northern Nevada continue to grow, the way outdoor recreation and tourism is managed here needs to change.