Lake Tahoe

S

SkiBM680

Member
Me and my freinds were gona go out to tahoe spring break and we wanted to stay on the north shore by squaw and north star. where is a good cheap place to stay thats decently close to the ski areas
 
Why is he an idiot? He's simply asking skiers where there are good places to stay which are near ski resorts.

If you don't have a car, I would look for a place in Tahoe City, Truckee, or Kings Beach, and take the TART bus. Northstar and Squaw have accomodations, but those will be more expensive.
 
squaw and northstar are like the two most expensive resorts inall of tahoe. but squaw is the best. i woud find some ghetto ass shack in trukee to stay at if you want cheap
 
yeah dude that place is the shit but if youre gonna go anywhere for spring break go to snowbird

when i went they got 34 inches of snow in one day

it was awesome
 
^^^ i have already ben to snowbird 2 times and i am going again presedents day so i wanted to mix things up. Also i didnt want to stay actaully at the resort but at like a little hotel in the area. we were gona ski mainly squaw, northstar for the park if the snow sucks, and alpine medows but maybe make a trip to kirkenwood one day
 
The cheapest thing to do would probably be to stay at some sleezy hotel in Reno and drive 40 minutes every morning to Northstar. But that would kind of suck with the driving. I think there has to be a cheap hotel in either Tahoe City or Truckee. If you stay in Tahoe City though you are still about a half hour from Northstar but only 10 minutes from Squaw. If you stayed in Truckee you are like 10 minutes from Squaw and 5 from Northstar. So for convenience I'd say stay in Truckee. I just don't know if there is any place cheap there, probably is something. Don't listen to other people, Tahoe is gunna rule about that time. Either it will be dumping snow, last year it snowed 6 feet in 5 days the third week of Msrch, or it will be sunny ans slushy and you can ski the best park in Tahoe at Northstar. Look into South Lake too. Sierra has a better all around mountain than Northtar and just as good of a terrain park.
 
^^ does that include a free continental breakfast?

I found a house to rentin tahoe city and its 1200 for a week. I am still looking though
 
Try to stay in Lake Forest Glen or Dollar Hill in Tahoe City. Right by squaw, not far from North Star, and you can walk in to the bars in T. City...

really cheap, very trashable, and lots of young people around.
 
^ that would be fun if there werent 5 guys and a bunch of smelly ski socks and clothes packed into the car.

I was looking at pics of mt rose and it looks so sick. there park looks good to
 
i was looking at the pics of mt roses park and it actaully looks really nice, like 5 big tables ina row. Can any one that actaully lives there confirm that
 
I can't confirm the park at Mt. Rose, but I can say that the chutes are pretty sick. Those alone wouldn't be worth the trip out to Tahoe though. There is much better terrain on the north shore at Squaw or Alpine, or on the south shore at Kirkwood. Mt. Rose is just a convenient place to go for people that live in Reno or Incline.
 
Mt. Rose from Reno:

pictures.php
 
Check out Tamarack Hotel in Tahoe City. it's pretty cheap - about $39 and is close to Squaw, Alpine, and Northstar (but who cares about Northstar). I stayed there while searching for an apartment last winter. Nice place with good service.

I wouldn't stay in Reno. The drive seems much farther than it is and can be a pain during storms unless you only plan on skiing Mt. Rose, which is a good place as well.

If you aren't too set on the North Tahoe, the South Shore has a bunch of cheap ass motels that you can stay in. Around there is Heavenly, Sierra, and Kirkwood.
 
Yea now im thinking we spend 4 days north shore and then 3 days south shore so we cando kirkinwood and heavenly to. k wood looks so nice for bc stuff
 
theyre both fun...but if i were you id check out kwood. its really not that far. i drive 2 hours every weekend from sacramento to tahoe and i absolutely love kirkwood. definately one of the best resorts in tahoe...not too crowded and GREAT terrain
 
I know everyone is going to rag on me for saying this but Northstar is actually a very fun place to spend a power day. I know it doesn't have the badass terrain of Squaw, Alpine, or Kirkwood but it also doesn't have the crowds. At those other resort powder days are a fucking rat race by the locals to get to every good stash and track it up. As an outsider it's really tough to know where to go and get good snow before everyone else gets there. Also During storms Alpine and Squaw get a shit ton of wind and usually end up closing all of the high lifts. At Northstar you don't have to worry about any of that. Most of the people who ski Northstar suck at riding or don't even come out on powder days. Which leaves everything for the few good skiers there to have all to themselves. You can get awesome snow a day or two after a storm and on storm days you'll have the resort to yourself. There are some really fun cliffs and windlips you can hit up and there is some amazing steep glade skiing. Also if you cruz over to an area called Hornets Nest there are some of the most fun pillow lines ever and absolutely nobody skis in there.

Oh yeah and it does have the best park in Tahoe. A way better pipe that Squaw and better rails and boxes. Also you can hit a variety of jumps, rails and boxes in one run. At Squaw you have to choose between jumps, the pipe, or rails and boxes because you can't hit all three in one run, at Northstar you can.
 
^ he's right about northstar's park. much better than squaw's. squaw's park is super weak and only has a few tables that aren't even built that well. i heard they toned it down quite a bit because of some injuries a couple of seasons ago.

but the terrain at squaw just kills northstar. sure it sucks on powder days but that's only if you follow the crowds around. i like to hit the stuff at squaw that most people tend to overlook. you can ski red dog all day and get nice tracks without a long lift line while everyone's killing each other over KT and granite.
 
i see a lot of northstars park in pictures and videos and it looks to me like its a. box crazy b. ride ons and c. not well maintained.

I hear alpines park is dope, and boreal looks to be the shit this year.
 
moving there dec 29 with passes to alpine and boreal, the people ive talked to on here say that is enough and i wont need the nstar pass. Still might though, ill just be 300 dollars poorer and get sierra with it.
 
What Northstar's park is meticulusly maintained. Literally everysingle feature is groomed to perfect nightly. Them the Park Staff goes through and rakes every feature at least twice a day. It is the best maintained park I've ever been to. The only time stuff isn't in good shape is when it gets really warm and the snow is super soft.
 
you are an idiot.

northstar has one of the best parks ever.

not mammoth quality, but amazing for tahoe.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top