9/17/2001
8/1/2019
9/17/2001
Landmark information
- Location:
In front of cable car building, Squaw Valley - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
9/17/2001 - Date Most Recently Visited:
8/1/2019 - GPS Coordinates:
N 39 11.797, W 120 14.142
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Pioneer Ski Area of America
One thousand competitors from 34 nations came to Squaw Valley to compete in the VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960. The games, brought here by Alexander C. Cushing, commemorated a century of sport skiing in America. By 1860 mining towns in the Sierra Nevada, particularly Whiskey Diggings, Poker Flat, Port Wine, Onion Valley, La Porte, and Johnsville, saw the first organized ski clubs and competition in the Western hemisphere.