1. Spooner Lake State Park Visitor Center
Location: Spooner Lake State Park, Highway 50, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, horseback riding trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, picnicking, biking
Cultural Significance: Cultural sites and cultural interpretation and Waší·šiw cultural displays
2. Taylor Creek Visitors Center Trilingual Audio Tour
Location: U.S.F.S. Taylor Creek Visitors Center, South Lake Tahoe, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, cultural interpretation, biking swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities, horseback riding, and wildlife viewing.
Cultural Significance: Cultural sites and cultural interpretation and Waší·šiw cultural displays
3. Washoe Tribe “Story Walk” experience on Tahoe Rim Trail
Location: Van Sickle Bi-State Park, South Lake Tahoe, California
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, cultural interpretation, wildlife viewing, and mountain biking
4. Valhalla Tahoe
Location: 1 Valhalla Road (Highway 89N), South Lake Tahoe, California
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Cultural sites with numerous grinding stone areas, encampment site for Waší·šiw
5. Taylor Creek Visitor Center
Location: Visitor Center Road, Highway 89N South Lake Tahoe, California
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, camping, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Traditional fishing site for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout spawning with viewing area and wildlife sanctuary
6. Fallen Leaf Lake
Location: South Lake Tahoe, Highway 89N, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, horseback riding trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, picnicking, biking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Future Home of Waší·šiw Cultural Center, encampment site for Waší·šiw Band of Hung-A-Lei-Ti (Southern Band)
7. Emerald Bay
Location: West Lake Tahoe, Highway 89N, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, picnicking, biking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Story-telling of Ung a “giant mythical bird” culture site with grinding stones, sight seeing and waterfalls
8. Bliss State Park
Location: West Lake Tahoe, Highway 89N, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, cultural interpretation, picnicking, biking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Cultural site, traditional shelter site (ADA compliant), cultural display
9. Washoe Tribe – Meeks Bay Resort
Location: West Lake Tahoe, Highway 89N, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, picnicking, biking, kayaking, beach activities, lodging, food
Cultural Significance: Cultural sites, traditional artwork, traditional shelter site, cultural display, Waši·šiw cultural and environmental restoration projects, Waší∙šiw ɁitdéɁ Indigenous Culture and Arts Festival
10. Sugar Pine State Park
Location: Tahoma, California, Highway 89N, California
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, camping, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Cultural site, traditional shelter site, cultural display
11. Gatekeeper Museum and Marion Steinbach Basket Museum
Location: North Lake Tahoe City, California
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, camping, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities, food, shopping
Cultural Significance: Basket museum of many Native American tribes including the Great Basin tribes
12. Palisades Tahoe – Olympic Ski Site
Location: Olympic Valley, California
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, tramway, picnicking, biking, kayaking, beach activities, skiing, food, shopping
Cultural Significance: Numerous cultural sites, future development of interpretation trail and cultural displays
13. Donner Memorial State Park
Location: Truckee, California Interstate I-80, Donner Pass Road exit
Recreation Opportunities: Hiking trails, fishing, camping, nature trail, picnicking, biking, kayaking, boating, beach at Donner Lake
Cultural Significance: Museum with Waši·šiw artifacts and traditional displays
14. Washoe Tribe’s Saw Mill – Supporting and sustaining healthy forests
Location: Clear Creek Road, Carson City, Nevada
Economic Development: Site visit and environmental education
Cultural Significance: Supporting and sustaining a healthy forest
15. Martis Creek Lake National Recreational Area
Location: Highway 267, near Truckee, California
Recreation Opportunities: Fishing, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, hiking, cultural interpretation, camping
Cultural Significance: Cultural site, encampment site for Waši·šiw Band of Mel-Wei-Ti (Northern Band)
16. Incline Village and Crystal Bay Visitor’s Center
Location: 969 Tahoe Boulevard (Highway 28), Incline Village, Nevada
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, camping, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Cultural display, cultural interpretation, plant interpretation, both indoor and outdoor traditional shelter display
17. Incline Public Library
Location: 845 Alder Avenue, Incline Village, Nevada
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, hiking trails, cultural interpretation, biking
Cultural Significance: Waši·šiw People history books and reading area, indoor traditional shelter, story telling and cultural display
18. Sand Harbor State Park
Location: Highway 28, Nevada
Recreation Opportunities: Nature walk, camping, cultural interpretation, biking, swimming, picnicking, kayaking, beach activities
Cultural Significance: Numerous cultural sites and cultural interpretation
19. Wa She Shu Travel Plaza
Location: 1003 US-395, Gardnerville, Nevada 89410
Economic Development: Fuel, food, cultural arts
20. Tahoe-Pyramid Trail
Location: Tahoe City, California (Lake Tahoe) to Nixon, Nevada (Pyramid Lake)
Economic Development: Cultural interpretation, hiking, running, cycling, wildlife viewing, fishing, nature trail which follows the Truckee River
Cultural Significance: Follows an Indigenous travel and trade route
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