Then and now: Echo Summit ski resort changes

There used to be a ski resort at Echo Summit. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

Historically, the wintertime recreation area atop Echo Summit on Highway 50 was a ski resort with chairlifts and a rope tow, known variously since the 1940s by names such as the early Nebelhorn or the later Echo Summit Ski Area.

The track was used for training for the 1968 Olympics. Photo/Les Wright

In 1968, it was the site of the Olympic training track to prepare athletes for Mexico City’s similar elevation at 7,300 feet.

It closed as a ski resort in 1988, later becoming home to the California Conservation Corps until 2002.

Today it is the new Adventure Mountain.

Adventure Mountain now leases the U.S. Forest Service property. Photo/Bill Kingman

— Bill Kingman

Souvenirs, above and right, from the old ski resort. Photo/Dave Wakeman