Truckee
Truckee is a town that is situated in Nevada County, California. This town covers an area of thirty-four square miles and has a population of almost fourteen thousand residents. The first explorers to trek across the Sierra Nevada ran across a Chief Winnemucca. Upon their approach, the chief rode toward them and screamed “Tro-kay”, a Paiute word that means “all is well”. The explorers assumed he was telling them his name and thus named the area Truckee.
Truckee has an average summer temperature of eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit and an average winter temperature of forty degrees Fahrenheit. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the town was one hundred and four degrees Fahrenheit and the lowest temperature ever recorded was twenty-three degrees below zero. Annual precipitation in the town is around thirty-one inches. Rain is recorded over eighty-seven days of the year on average. During the winter, the town of Truckee receives almost two hundred inches of snow per year. The maximum recorded amount of snowfall in a single month in the town is one hundred and thirteen inches in December of 1992.
The town of Truckee has many attractions to entertain potential tourists. One of the more prominent attractions in the town is the Boreal Mountain Resort. This ski resort is located in Soda Springs, west of the town near Lake Tahoe. This resort is generally one of the first ski resorts in Norther California to open for winter sports each year. Key features of the resort include a terrain park that has hand rails, half pipes, C-boxes and a wave box. There is also a family play area called Play Land. Top elevation of the resort is seventy-seven hundred feet with a base elevation of seventy-two hundred feet. The skiable area of the resort is three hundred and eighty acres and it contains forty-one runs and twelve lifts. The longest run available here is just over a mile. Boreal Mountain Resort gets over four hundred inches of snowfall per year.
Other attractions in the town of Truckee include Northstar-at-Tahoe, Tributary Whitewater Tours, Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail Museum, Spirits In Stone Gallery, Black Tie Ski Rental, Tahoe Donner, Northstar at Tahoe Ski Area, Soda Springs Mountain Ski Resort, Northstar Stables, Rocking Stone Tower, Sierra Mountain Cemetery, Northstar at Tahoe Mountain Bike Park, Old Truckee Jail Museum, Ponderosa Golf Course, Truckee Gallery, Lower Woods Biking trail and Foothill Farmer’s Market. Truckee also contains several restaurants and hotels. Popular restaurants in the town include Pacific Crest Grill at Bar of America, Dragonfly Restaurant & Sushi Bar, Burger Me, Moody’s, Squeeze In Restaurant, Pianeta Ristorante and the Cottonwood Restaurant. Prominent hotels in the town include Truckee Hotel, Inn At Truckee, Holiday Inn Express, Northstar at Tahoe, Cedar House Sport Hotel, River Street Inn and the Best Western Truckee Tahoe Inn. Since the town is primarily a ski town, there are also a number of resort accomodations located in the area which include Cedar House Sport Hotel, Clair Tappaan Lodge, Tahoe Donner Cross Country, Loch Leven Lodge, Old Greenwood Resort and Squaw Creek Resort.
