Reno, NV – Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe officials have filed a proposal with the U.S. Forest Service and Washoe County to spend $23.5 million over 10 years to expand the Lake Tahoe area ski resort in the mountains above Reno.

Plans call for improved and expanded lifts and trails as well as improvements to snowmaking and facilities. The thrust of the proposal involves expansion of skiing and riding terrain onto a 99-acre parcel known as the Atoma terrain to expand the resort’s beginner offerings, connected to the rest of the resort by a new 3,500-foot return lift  and skier bridge that would cross the Mount Rose Highway. The existing Ponderosa and Galena Lifts would be combined into a single high-speed, 5,000 foot-long lift, the Lakeview lift would be extended and a new mountaintop restaurant would be added.

The project’s first step would be to conduct an environmental analysis to be submitted to officials of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.