Gatekeeper's Museum, Tahoe City

The gift shop while small, offers unique items. The curator is friendly and knowledgeable. The grounds offer a nice stroll to the lake's edge and the dam.

If you want to see everything about 1960 Winter Olympics this is the place to go. They have a mixture of other items to see as well. There's a great place out behind overlooking the lake where you can sit and eat or fish. The geese are plentiful.

Interesting museum. It's not that big so you can probably finish it in like 30mins. Gives a little bit of history on families that have lived in Tahoe area as well as some old articles of clothing, etc. They also have a section of Native American baskets. Loved the video that they were playing, as it was quite informative. It was $5 to get in.

Great museum of local history. Recommended for kids too. Beautiful nature spot surrounding great for picnic or fishing.

Museum staff (blonde woman) was so knowledgeable about indigenous washoe tribe. Had a terrific perspective on settlers that added so much value to the tour. Her details on each indigenous artifact was incredible. The basket collection alone is a reason to make the trip from any part of the Lake, or northern CA, for that matter. Well preserved tools, baskets, hats, necklaces from tribes throughout the west coast: cosalish to ohlone to mewok and washoe or course. I could spend hours at the American indian artifacts alone. $5 per person is totally worth it. Ended up staying for about 60 min.