Lost ski areaNevadaSierra Nevada
Tannenbaum
A one-lift ski area on the Mount Rose Highway near Galena, between the Christmas Tree restaurant and Rosemount Lodge, that opened in the 1960s and closed around 1981.
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Tannenbaum stood beside the Mount Rose Highway, Highway 431, near Galena, between the Christmas Tree restaurant and Rosemount Lodge. Skimap.org spells it Tannanbaum and puts it just over a kilometre from Sky Tavern.1,2,3,4
Read the whole historyTodayThe old summit lift house, some machinery and several lodges still stand, and backcountry skiers descend the old run; the nearby Christmas Tree restaurant burned.3,5
Timeline
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Memories
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Lost near Tannenbaum
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1957–1986 · 21.1 mi away · CaliforniaA small ski area at the foot of Alpine Meadows Road off Highway 89, opened as Powder Bowl in 1957 and run as Deer Park from 1980 to 1986.
- Closed 1988 · 38 mi away · CaliforniaA ski area beside U.S. 50 at Echo Summit, California, first called Nebelhorn, that ran from the 1940s until 1988.
- 1941–1963 · 39.9 mi away · CaliforniaA ski area on Highway 50 just above Twin Bridges, at today's Camp Sacramento, that opened as the Strawberry Ski Hut in 1941 and closed in 1963.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 7 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Tannenbaum stood beside the Mount Rose Highway, Highway 431, near Galena, between the Christmas Tree restaurant and Rosemount Lodge. Skimap.org spells it Tannanbaum and puts it just over a kilometre from Sky Tavern.1,2,3,4
Mt. Rose's history timeline carries two Reno Gazette-Journal clippings about it, dated January 24, 1964 and January 6, 1966. One reports a new ski area running on weekends now that snow had come, where owners Lew Ferguson and Jim Francis would start a 1,700-foot rope tow; it had its own parking. The other, an advertisement, promoted Tannenbaum as the newest ski area around Reno, with a grand opening that January, a groomed hill served by a T-bar, a separate beginner slope with a rope tow, a ski school and food, and an eye on families from Washoe Valley.1
Marcus Libkind's Sierra ski-tour guide calls it a one-lift area, its lift running straight up the slope, and says it closed in 1981 or thereabouts. The Colorado Skier newsletter listed it among lost Nevada ski areas in 2001, and UC Davis ecologists Jennifer Burt and Jeffrey Clary included its old runs in a 2015 study of six abandoned ski areas around Lake Tahoe.2,3,5,6,7
TodayThe old summit lift house, some machinery and several lodges still stand, and backcountry skiers descend the old run; the nearby Christmas Tree restaurant burned.3,5
Sources for this history (7)
- 1Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe · Tannenbaum Ski Area Opens
- 2Sierra Sun · Abandoned ski areas near Tahoe struggle to recover due to graded runs (Kaleb M. Roedel, December 28, 2015)
- 3Snowlands Network · Old Tannenbaum Ski Area
- 4Skimap.org · Tannanbaum
- 5Snowlands Network · Old Mount Rose Highway
- 6The Colorado Skier (Colorado Ski History) · The Colorado Skier Newsletters: Lost Areas #27 (9 May 2001)
- 7Phys.org · Making the grade: Certain abandoned ski runs recover better than others (UC Davis, December 16, 2015)
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Tannenbaum, in their own words.
Facts
Location
39.3450° N · 119.8631° W · Nevada · Sierra Nevada
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
from 1964 · the year it closed is not yet collected
Closed for good; the year it closed is not yet collected. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 1all 1, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain