Want to learn more about Heavenly's Epic Discovery Project?

Want to know more about the proposed Epic Discovery Project. at Heavenly Village?

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will hold an open house on Thursday, September 18, 2014, to explain and answer questions about its draft analysis of a proposal from Heavenly Mountain Resort. The resort has a 40 year lease to operate on national forest lands and now wants to expand year-round, non-skiing activities at the Lake Tahoe resort.

USFS worked with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board to produce a joint environmental document to facilitate review of the resort’s proposed project.

New activities would include zipline and skycycle canopy tours, a mountain bike park, a ropes course, water activities, hiking trails, mountain excursion tours and nature interpretation. Heavenly is also proposing to create a snowcat emergency evacuation route for the gondola line.

Adventure Peak, at the top of the Gondola, would continue to serve as the primary access portal and hub for most of the proposed activities. However, the proposal would extend activities beyond Adventure Peak to provide natural resource-based recreation in the East Peak Lake Basin to the east and the Sky Meadows Basin to the west. A combination of ski lifts, hiking trails and zip lines would link all three activity centers. All activities would be accessed using the existing Gondola from the base station at Heavenly Village.

The Forest Service open house will take place Thursday, September 18, 2014, at the Forest Supervisor’s Office, 35 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, California, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. This is not a public hearing, but rather an opportunity for those interested to learn more about the project to assist them in developing their comments.

David Landry, TRPA is serving as the primary point of contact to address questions and accept written comments, (775) 589-5214, dlandry@trpa.og. To view the project documents, visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/ltbmu/HeavenlyEpicProject