News Stories

Great Homes: The Lodge at Martis Camp

Tahoe TV's Great Homes of Lake Tahoe & Truckee recently teamed up with Kelly Brothers Painting to take a look at one of the region's most spectacular buildings, the Lodge at Martis Camp.

Donner Party Tracker: Building Shelters - Early November 1846

One hundred and sixty-three years ago this week, members of the Donner Party were busy building shelters at both Donner Lake and in the Alder Creek Valley north of present-day Truckee.

Hiking--19 Miles from Meeks Bay to Emerald Bay

There are times in every life that demand a modest act of penance. When you’ve behaved badly a good remedy is to hike from Meeks Bay to Emerald Bay in a day.

PLACES: D.L. Bliss State Park on West Shore at Emerald Bay

Duane Leroy Bliss was a nineteenth-century timber baron whose logging operations helped clear-cut much of the Tahoe Basin in the late 1800s.

PLACES: Mt. Rose Family Hike to Tahoe Meadows

Looking for a nice, easy hike to add to the summer list? Grab the kids, the dog, and a picnic lunch and explore Tahoe Meadows at the crest of Mt. Rose highway.

LOST LEGEND #6: Bear Slides of the Comstock Lode

After the Comstock Lode was found in Nevada near Lake Tahoe in 1859, fortunes were made and lost by the turn of a card, the fall of a pistol's hammer, the clicking of dice, and, some say, the rumble of bears tumbling down mountainsides and into the big blue lake.