-Incline Village is not incorporated.

-The Incline Village General Improvement District is governed by five trustees who are elected for four-year terms.

-Incline Village consists of 9,000 acres, 4,500 of which would have been developed if the original plans were to be completed. There are approximately 9,000 lots.

-Incline Village has four public schools: Incline Elementary (K-2), the new Incline Elementary (3-5), Incline Middle School (6-8), and Incline High School (9-12). The Lake Tahoe School is a private (K-8) school, and Sierra Nevada College is Nevada’s only private four year college.

-Elevations range from 6,225 at Lake level to 7,700 feet.

-The average snowfall is 216 inches. Average annual rainfall is 8.3 inches.

-There are on average 290 days of sunshine each year.

-Average temperatures are 32 to 36 degrees in winter and 75 to 79 degrees in summer.

-The Lake is 21.6 miles long, 12 miles wide and 72 miles around. It is as long as the English Channel is wide, and half as wide as San Francisco Bay.

-Lake Tahoe’s lowest known depth is 1,648 feet.

- Water surface temperatures range from 41 degrees in the winter to 68 degrees in the summer months.

-63 tributaries drain into the Lake. The Truckee River is its only outlet at Tahoe City’s Fanny Bridge.

-Lake Tahoe never freezes over, due to the constant movement of the water from the bottom to the surface. This “turnover” allows an enormous mass movement of water, keeping the Lake’s surface ice free. However, ice may form at times along the shoreline in small protected inlets, and during extremely cold winters, Emerald Bay has frozen over.

-Lake Tahoe is the highest lake of its size in the United States.

Crystal Bay Development in an attempt to preserve something of those early logging days named this new community “Incline Village”. By 1964, a new elementary school was under construction, and several years later, the community cut the ribbon at Incline High School. In June of 1968, Crystal Bay Development Company sold its remaining interests to Boise Cascade Corporation. New development began.

A second golf course, the Executive Golf Course (now the Mountain Golf Course), designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. was constructed and Incline Village Units 1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 were master planned. Land sold quickly. Large condominium projects were built, including Mountain Shadows and Forest Pines. Where supply could not meet the demands of the 1960’s, now, in the early 1970’s supply exceeded the demand and Incline Village was ready for another “nap”.

Recovery came in 1976, as renewed interest in Incline Village as a year-round community sprang up. Residents became interested in their political future; the subject of incorporation was discussed and the possibility of forming a new Lake County was explored. The swing had started toward a community with a larger percentage of permanent residents, and facilities were built to hand their needs.

That brings us to the Incline Village we have today, with signs of a healthy future around every corner. Incline residents and property owners come from all parts of the country and the world. They are hard working young families and relaxed retirees. They are corporation executives, airline pilots, teachers, entrepreneurs and builders. They’re recreationally active and environmentally protective and, they have one common denominator: Their all-encompassing love for Incline Village and Lake Tahoe.

Why do we love life at Lake Tahoe, and more specifically, in Incline Village? Part of it is clear, crisp air, the clean, pure water we drink from the Lake without the need for purification, and the anticipation we feel for each new season. In Incline Village, it is the pride of ownership; ownership, as property owners, in our recreational facilities, which include three gorgeous beaches, two golf courses, our ski resort, tennis complex and parks. We take pride in the sense of “community” we feel as a result of our well-defined boundaries, and the satisfaction we gain as participating members of a small, growing community.

We invite you to join us here. The only requirement for residency is a deep appreciation for the beauty, a willingness to try a new, more relaxed form of living, and a bit of the pioneer spirit!

In the early 1900’s visitors to Lake Tahoe spent glorious summer holidays in the vacation paradise of Glenbroook and Tallac to the South and Tahoe Tavern and Brockway to the North. A single-lane road connected the North and South Shores, and in the 1930’s, summer homes were built in the area of Incline Beach, south from the Hyatt Lake Tahoe Hotel, along Lakeshore Boulevard.

By this time, the lumber interest had sold most of the Nevada North Shore from Crystal Bay to Zephyr Cove to multimillionaire real estate magnate, “Captain” George Whittel. Captain Whittell built his stone castle on a rocky point south of Sand Harbor. Captain Whittell was quite a character, hosting wild, legendary parties, and housing exotic animals at his estate. His estate, the Thunderbird Lodge, is available for tours during the summer.

Incline was little more than a “wide spot” in the road during the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, with only summer homes and a trailer park to distinguish it. Year-round residents were few, and those who remain tell stories of wild winters, food shortages and isolation.

In the late 1950’s, Crystal Bay Development company approached Captain Whittell, then in his declining years, with an offer to purchase the 9,000 acres which is Incline Village today. Crystal Bay Development Company had a grand plan for a community totally unique and master-planned to perfection. The sale was made, and Robert Trent Jones was contacted to conceive a golf course which would combine the area’s natural beauty and the game’s challenge.

Lot and condominium sales were brisk. Private homes were under construction along Lakeshore Boulevard (the main highway at the time), in Millcreek, the central areas, and on the view sites in Chateau Acres (Eastern Slope), and Country Club subdivisions. The lower Ponderosa area was developed and lakefront condominiums were built. Don’t you wish you had been here then, when lakefront condominiums were selling for under $40,000? A small shopping center began, with a market and post office. Children attending high school were bussed to Reno, leaving at 6:00 AM and on winter days, not returning until 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Once upon a time, there was a lovely, azure blue Lake, surrounded by lush forest. When Mark Twain viewed Lake Tahoe, he remarked that “surely this is the finest view the world affords.”

Lake Tahoe’s first residents were the Washoe Indians who lived and fished along its shores. As time passed, and civilization moved West, settlers paused in the passes to the North and South to marvel at the color and clarity of this magnificent body of water. Incline Village slept through the Lake’s early development, as the centers of activity in the early days sprang up at South Lake Tahoe, Glenbrook and Tahoe City.

In the mid-1800’s, lumber interests discovered the Nevada North Shore as an excellent source of timber for the Washoe mines, and at that point, began logging of the area we know as Incline Village.

It was called “Incline” in those days, a name was derived from the double track narrow gauge tramline that carried logs nearly 1,400 feet vertically to the V-flume which ran along the mountain top granite outcropping.

The 4,000 feet-long tramline was located in the area that is now Millcreek Subdivision. Hikers will find the scars and remnants of the tramline and flume in the area between Millcreek and Sand Harbor Beach.

The V-flume carried Incline’s timber on the first leg of its route to the water tunnel through the mountains and to the mines of Virginia City and the Washoe Valley.

In 1884, the remote settlement of Incline was declared both an election precinct and a fourth class post office, thus marking the first time that Incline was “on the map”.

By 1897, Incline had been left a sea of stumps, with a maze of crumbling flumes and rotting log chutes… the ugly duckling of the Lake area. Incline was left to sleep and rejuvenate itself.

If you have seen the logging trucks and equipment moving about Incline Village, there is good reason. From Lakeshore Boulevard up to Incline Way, near Aspen Grove there is a patch of ground owned by IVGID. For everything the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District does (which is ALOT!) to burn materials on the out skirts of town, we have had this multi-acre parcel in the center of town just loaded up with old dead materials ready for the errant cigarette butt or lightning strike. Over the last year, and most noticeably, the last two months, workers have been hard at work cleaning that parcel. They logged some trees and collected up a small mountain of dead underbrush and mulched it. So next time you are driving on Incline Way near the Rec Center, take a look south and you might be surprised how much better that the clean up work has made that parcel look. Not to mention that we have helped reduce a major fire hazard in the middle of town.

Summer has arrived and with it comes a the largest inventory of homes for sale within Incline village, Nevada. Many sellers wait for the Spring and Summer to arrive in the hopes of taking full advantage of buyers who come to enjoy Lake Tahoe and all the summer activities the mountains offer.

Buyer’s tend to look over the summer and some make the move to buy but many wait for the end of the season and the arrival of Autumn to buy. Seller’s tend to be a little more motivated to sell before the snow the falls.

Sales indicate that resort property which is primarily second homes for 60% of residents here are down substantially- 40 homes have sold Jan.-Jun. ’08. The percentage between asking and selling on average is only 2 % but in reality it varies a great deal depending on the property. The range was as little as $4,000 off an asking price of $799,000 to as much as $300,000 on a $2.5 million property listed for over a year.

We advise our seller’s to work with any and all offers presented.

For our community an inventory of 238 (+ or-) homes is considered substantial ranging in price from $499,000 to $47 million. We have n abundance of home in the $3 million + pricing with many new construction or remodeled homes.

With 15 different subdivisions/neighborhoods to choose from you can decide if walking distance to the beach is a priority or close proximity to the golf course or ski resort are what you had in mind.

The lakefront market has 13 homes with actual lake frontage or lake front amenities which include pier, buoy, boat house. They range in ranging from a 8.75 private gated estate compound with 578′ of shoreline, 3 residences and a 173′ pier. This property has the potential of being purchased and subdivided into 4 separate parcels with shared pier access. It is an amazing property with lush grounds you would never know existed as you stroll down Lakeshore Blvd. The lowest lake front home which actually does not sit on the water but has access to a shared pier runs $3.5 Million.

So a lake front is a little to pricey? What would a small cabin in the woods run?

Sales this year, plan on spending between around $600,000-$850,000 to find a modest home on a half acre lot.