Olympic Valley
Olympic Valley is a ski resort town on the border between California and Nevada area centered around Lake Tahoe. Olympic Valley Ski Resort covers 3,600 acres employing 30 chairlifts and the only funitel in the U.S.Photo: Jonnyboyca, Public domain.
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- Type: Valley with an elevation of 6,079 feet
- Description: ski resort in Placer County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Ladies Paradise”, “Palisades Tahoe”, “Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows”, and “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Historically known as: “Squaw Valley”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Tahoe Preparatory School.
Lake Tahoe Preparatory School
School
Lake Tahoe Preparatory School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory boarding school located in Olympic Valley, California. Established in 1978 by founder Donald Rees, the school provides a supportive academic environment with a focus on individualized learning and meaningful student-faculty relationships.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tahoe City and Olympic Valley.
Tahoe City
Tahoe City is a town on the California side of the Lake Tahoe region. The city was once the site of logging and hunting activity for the northern Tahoe Basin, now it is little more than a year round vacation town catering to visitors and locals daily needs.Olympic Valley
Village
Photo: DimiTalen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Olympic Valley is an unincorporated community located in Placer County, California, United States. It lies northwest of Tahoe City along California State Highway 89 on the banks of the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe.
Alpine Meadows
Hamlet
Alpine Meadows is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. The community is located on Bear Creek, a tributary of the Truckee River 5 miles west of Tahoe City, at an elevation of 6,480 ft.
Olympic Valley
- Categories: ski resort and landform
- Location: Placer County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Olympic Valley” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Afrikaans: “Squaw Valley”
- Bulgarian: “Палисейдс Тахо”
- Bulgarian: “Ски курорт Скуо Вали”
- Bulgarian: “Скуо Вали”
- Catalan: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Chinese: “斯阔谷滑雪渡假胜地”
- Dutch: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Dutch: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Dutch: “Squaw Valley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منتجع سكواو فالى للتزلج”
- Estonian: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Finnish: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Finnish: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Finnish: “Squaw Valley”
- French: “Palisades Tahoe”
- French: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- French: “Squaw Valley”
- German: “Palisades Tahoe”
- German: “Skigebiet Squaw Valley”
- German: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- German: “Squaw Valley” (historical)
- Italian: “Squaw Valley”
- Japanese: “スコーヴァレー・スキーリゾート”
- Japanese: “スコーバレー・スキーリゾート”
- Japanese: “パリセーズ・タホ”
- Lithuanian: “Skvo Valis”
- Luxembourgish: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Norwegian: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Portuguese: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Russian: “Горнолыжный курорт Скво-Вэлли”
- Russian: “Палисадес Тахо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Squaw Valley”
- Spanish: “Squaw Valley” (historical)
- Swedish: “Palisades Tahoe”
- Swedish: “Squaw Valley Ski Resort”
- Swedish: “Squaw Valley”
- Thai: “รีสอร์ตสกีสควอว์วัลเลย์”
- Vietnamese: “Khu nghỉ dưỡng Trượt tuyết Squaw Valley”
- Vietnamese: “Palisades Tahoe”
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