Incline Village, California
If you're looking for a more intimate Tahoe vacation experience, you'll want to check out Incline Village. With 9,000 year-round residents, Incline Village offers community and cultural events and every seasonal sporting activity imaginable in a cozy community setting on the Northeast shore of Lake Tahoe.
In addition to its spectacular scenery and welcoming small town atmosphere, Incline Village is home to private beaches, two golf courses, a tennis complex, and an indoor recreation building with an Olympic-size swimming pool, health club and gymnasium. Incline Village is also home to the Diamond Peak Ski Resort. Year-round sporting activities range from fishing, boating, biking, water skiing, hiking, kayaking, and jet skiing to snowskiing (downhill and cross country), snowmobiling and sleigh rides.
Summer cultural activities include the Lake Tahoe Music Festival and Shakespeare at Sand Harbor, while winter brings the Northern Lights Winter Festival. And, of course, don't forget the area's five casinos, which are open all day, every day.
With 300 days of sunshine each year, summer highs in the upper 70's and winter highs in the upper 40's, Incline Village is truly a paradise on earth. Let Tahoe Destinations help you select the perfect Incline Village vacation rental for your next trip to the Lake Tahoe area. Browse our featured properties below, or complete a reservation request and let us help you choose your vacation rental, rental house, cabin or other lodging.
Incline Village History
Developers and the business of real estate at Lake Tahoe is a relatively new phenomenon compared with the 9,000 years and more than 400 generations the Washo tribe settled at camps at Incline Village, Spooner Lake and Skunk Harbor.
For many years, summers meant creating conical shaped homes from cedar bark that would last long enough for the summer's fishing and hunting season to replenish the food supply and provide skins for clothing.
John C. Fremont was the first European explorer to record the sighting of Lake Tahoe, in Feb. 1844. His exploration party was guided by the legendary Kit Carson. Lake Tahoe became a bustling center of commerce in the 1860s during the height of silver mining in Virginia City. The Central Pacific Railroad extended to Truckee.
In the summer of 1873, Walter Scott Hobert had established the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Co. In September 1880 and by October, he had completed a stream-powered sawmill half a mile from the lake in the area known now as Millcreek. By fall, 1897, Incline Village was nothing but stripped forest land.
George Whittell purchase in the 1930s of 44,000 acres of Nevada land ensured that Tahoe's north shore would not become a commercial wasteland.
The first influx of settlers made their homes at Crystal Bay in the 1860s. The Ta-Neva-Ho (now the Cal-Neva) Crystal Bay's first casino, was built in 1927 by developer Bob Sherman. In 1946 Joseph Blumenfeld built the Tahoe Biltmore Hotel.
The Crystal Bay Development Co. took off after the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley. Ray Plunkett, along with Harold Tiller, Arthur Wood and Matt McCoskey, principal owner of the Cal-Neva, took over ownership when current owner Frank Sinatra lost his gaming license because of a mob connection.
Incline Village was formed in about 1960, and since then, land has been built to capacity, leaving few buildable lots remaining at the turn of the 21st century.