Tahoe Donner

Are you interested in making a difference in your own neighborhood and helping to improve the Tahoe Donner trail system? Tahoe Donner will host a handful of volunteer Trail Work Days and will be seeking volunteers. We hope you will consider getting involved! Contact Sarah Collamer, Trail Steward, at scollamer@tahoedonner.com to sign up.

Saturday, June 23
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Improve access to the trail network from Hillside Drive. We will be constructing a new trail to connect Hillside Drive with trail section 6A-7A. There is an existing trail that will decommission and rerouted on to higher ground. This project will require digging, heavy lifting and use of hand tools. We will also be doing trash removal and vegetation trimming along the Nature Loop near Northwoods Boulevard. The Nature Loop needs a spruce up; it is one of the most heavily used trails in TD and receives a lot of trash from the road. This project will be better for families with small kids or anyone requiring lighter duty. We hope to cover the length of the Nature Loop from the Northwoods Clubhouse to the driving range.

Sunday, July 29
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Meet at the the Forestry Office, 14514 Northwoods Blvd.
Trails day will include work on the trail #27-28 which is located just off of Teton Way. We recommend that you wear work gloves, long pants, sturdy shoes, sunglasses and a hat. Bring sunscreen, bagged lunch/snacks and water bottle. Volunteer work crew along with Forestry staff will be park at the new forestry property near the Teton trailhead (off of Skislope Way).  It is a short walk to the trail we are working on, so volunteers will have access to their cars.

Saturday, August 25
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Truckee Donner Land Trust’s John Svan will be giving a presentation on trail use and user conflicts on Saturday, June 30. The presentation begins at 10 a.m. in the conference room at Northwoods Clubhouse.

Get involved by volunteering with Tahoe Donner!

This summer Tahoe Donner rolled out a volunteer program which provides members an opportunity to get involved in the Tahoe Donner and Truckee/Tahoe Community. You can get involved and get first-hand experience in providing recreational opportunities and benefits to amenities through various opportunities including event preparation and crew participation, club related volunteer events/activities, and leadership of other volunteers.

We had a great turnout for the June Trails Day which participants helped improve the Hillside/St. Moritz trail and cleaned up the Nature Loop, as well as for the Fourth of July parade float construction and participation where we won “Best in Show.”

How you can get involved:

Request to be on the Tahoe Donner Volunteer Group. Individuals, families or groups on this list will be contacted for every volunteer opportunity. Tahoe Donner Volunteer Group enrollment requests are made directly to Annie Rosenfeld, Director of Facilities and Risk Management at arosenfeld@tahoedonner.com.

Request to be on a specific event volunteer list. Individuals, families or groups can request to be on a specific event volunteer crew. Specific TDA Management contact will be given for each event for members to contact and enroll for volunteer activities.

Get involved with a Tahoe Donner chartered club.  Many of the chartered clubs have active volunteer programs which directly benefit their “home” amenity.

Summer Volunteer Events

July 29, 2012 | July Trails Day
Join the Forestry crew and Friend of the TD Trails Club members to improve the Teton Trail
(Contact Sarah Collamer, Trail Steward, at scollamer@tahoedonner.com to sign up)

August 25, 2012 | August Trails Day
Join the forestry crew and Friend of the TD Trails Club members to improve Tahoe Donner trails
(Contact Sarah Collamer, Trail Steward, at scollamer@tahoedonner.com to sign up)

Tahoe Donner has a mixture of red fir, white fir, Jeffrey pine and lodgepole pine for sale. The wood is cut into firewood rounds approximately 16 inches in length. The 2012 cost for wood is $80 plus tax per cord. Permits for cords are sold at the Member Services Office. Permits for cords are good only for the year in which they are purchased. No refunds are available.

After purchasing a permit at the Member Services Office, wood must be picked up at the Tahoe Donner wood yard. The wood yard is located off the dirt road between 12469 and 12605 Skislope Way and is open on select weekends. There is no delivery and no split wood available. Members are responsible for loading their own vehicles.

The wood yard is open from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on the following days:
August 31
September 1
October 5 & 6

Questions? Please contact the Tahoe Donner Forestry Department at (530) 587-9432.

Attention Truckee Residents!

Please take a moment to complete the Town of Truckee super simple five question survey on how you dispose of yard waste.

We are trying something new: In exchange for the one day Fire Safety event that occurs each June, all Truckee residents will be granted a free pass to drop off up to six yards (approximately 40 bags) of pine needles and vegetative waste at the Eastern Regional Landfill (ERL).

Residents may drop off yard waste between June 1-16, Monday – Saturday, from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. ERL is closed on Sundays. Proof of residency required. You must live within the Town limits to participate and must show a photo ID with a Truckee address when you arrive at ERL. If you don’t have your home address on you ID, no problem, simply take your ID along with a utility bill.

Be prepared to unload your own yard waste. If yard waste is transported to ERL in bags, you will be required to empty the bags to take advantage of free disposal. Multiple trips are permitted.

Accepted Items:
pine needles
pine cones
lawn trimmings
garden waste
brush, twigs, limbs and branches
wood chips
bark

Not Accepted:
food waste
pet waste
rocks
dirt

In addition, the Green Bag curbside yard waste collection program continues. Limited to four tied green bags per week, green bags are available at Mountain Hardware, Tahoe Supply Company and the Tahoe Donner Member Services office at Northwoods Clubhouse.