Truckee, CA Townhome for Sale

Before it was a town, Truckee was a pit stop on the Emigrant Trail. Thousands of Californians brought wagons through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 1840s — the Donner Party, for one — in pursuit of gold and a better life. As more people flocked to the area in the 1860s, a lumber mill and railroad were constructed, and ice harvesting from nearby lakes had taken off. The early 1900s brought film crews from Hollywood, and by 1960, the Olympic games came to Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort. “The town was incorporated in the 1990s,” says Christy Morrison with Home & Slate, a Truckee resident since 1988 and a Realtor since 2006. “Before that, there were a bunch of teeny neighborhoods and ski areas, and there wasn’t really a sense of community. You’d see your friends on the ski hill, but a central meeting place didn’t exist. Then the real estate boom happened in the 2000s, and people started getting a sense of place. They started congregating in other areas besides the recreation spaces. New restaurants and shops started popping up downtown.” This downtown, along with ski resorts and Lake Tahoe, now attracts millions of tourists per year. About 17,000 locals are here year-round or