Then and now: Tahoe Paradise never developed

A brochure touting Tahoe Paradise. Photo/Theresa and Darrell Eymann

The proposed Tahoe Paradise Inn. Photo/Theresa and Darrell Eymann

Tahoe Paradise proposed development. Photo/Theresa and Darrell Eymann

In the early 1960s, developers promoted a planned recreational community in Meyers which they named Tahoe Paradise.

A promotional brochure shows the plan included a long, covered moving walkway leading to a proposed Tahoe Paradise Inn, a riding stables, hot springs, water service, recreation club, and a new Highway 89 link toward Camp Richardson.

Today’s Pioneer Trail was proposed then as “Alternate U.S. 50” to Stateline.

Tahoe Paradise and Meyers today. Photo/Google Earth

Remaining today includes Tahoe Paradise Golf Course and the divided four-lane stretch of Lake Tahoe Boulevard between the South Lake Tahoe city limits and Sawmill Pond and Tahoe Mountain Road, which was intended to serve what the developers hoped would be a large population in Tahoe Paradise.

— Bill Kingman