Tahoe Shopping: Gifts

Cabin Fever has been a favorite destination for locals and visitors since they opened their doors in Tahoe City in 1992. In the early days, they were the first to bring lodge-style furnishings to the Lake Tahoe area. Now relocated to Truckee, they are still a mountain furnishing store but they have come a long way since they sold their first log bed! Cabin Fever now...read more

When Cabona’s opened in 1906, this was where Truckee’s rough-hewn residents shopped for general merchandise geared toward mountain living. As the decades passed, the needs of residents and visitors have changed, and so have Cabona’s offerings. The area’s oldest retail store now offers sportswear and accessories for women and men inspired by and designed for the great outdoors. Colors, fabrics and styles of the apparel carried by...read more

Any visit to the Truckee-Tahoe area will undoubtedly find one driving on California Highway 89. The store California 89 has taken the iconic black-and-white California Highway 89 marker and placed it on a variety of clothing items and gifts. Men, women and children will find shirts and hoodies emblazoned with CA89 and other Tahoe mountain-oriented designs. The store also offers California 89-branded cycling jerseys, perfect...read more

Go into the home of a Truckee-Tahoe local and there’s a good chance you’ll find Elizabeth and Olof Carmel's artwork capturing the rugged beauty of the Sierra Nevada. While the California-based photographers travel the world capturing natural landscapes with their high-resolution digital cameras, their iconic images of the Sierra, Lake Tahoe and Yosemite hold center stage at their Truckee gallery. Elizabeth and Olof are each an...read more

While you would be hard-pressed to find records of any actual piracy on Lake Tahoe, that doesn’t mean we don’t like to put on an eye-patch once in a while and throw out an Ahoy, Matey and Ahrgh! into our conversation now and then. That’s why it’s great to have CC’s Pirate Treasures, also known as the Pirate Store, in town. They carry just about...read more