TRPA opens annual Lake Tahoe mooring lottery on December 1

Lake Tahoe, Calif./Nev. — Entries for new Lake Tahoe moorings (buoys, boat lifts, etc.) can be submitted by lakefront owners to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) starting on December 1, 2022. Annually there is a mooring lottery and the Lake Tahoe Shoreline Plan. This annual lottery will continue until all allocations allowed under the plan are distributed.

The plan, approved in 2018, places a cap on the total number of moorings and piers allowed in the Tahoe Region and established this annual lottery system to allocate new moorings.

Entries for the lottery can be submitted anytime from December 1, 2022, through March 1, 2023, and all submissions received before the deadline will be considered equally, according to TRPA.

Applicants must meet certain criteria to enter, however, the drawing is only for an allocation. If a person receives an allocation in the lottery, a complete permit application will be required. TRPA said only littoral shoreline properties (those that adjoin or abut the highwater line of Lake Tahoe) are eligible to enter the lottery.

Additional information on eligibility and how to enter is available at laketahoeinfo.org/moorings.