Lahontan Real Estate Market
Lahontan is a gated golf course community in the Martis Valley of Truckee where homes sell for around $3 million to upwards of $6 million. The community is built around a sprawling Tom Weiskopf-designed championship golf course, and includes a nicely maintained Par 3 course, with putting greens and a practice range. Lahontan's amenities include a day spa, year-round lap swimming with outdoor jacuzzis, tennis, pickleball, and a five-star restaurant with casual dining options as well. With a gate house staffed 24 hours a day, Lahontan offers security, privacy and exclusivity.
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The Lahontan Clubhouses, Lodge & Fitness Center are undergoing a major renovation in 2025-26 that will expand casual dining at its elegant restaurant, redesign the fitness center, and freshen up other facilities.
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Getting There: Location Lahontan Golf Club
Lahontan is about a 3- to 4-hour drive from much of the San Francisco Bay Area, less than 2 hours from the Sacramento region, and only a 30-minute drive from much of Reno. The Truckee Airport (a Surf Air destination in California) is just a 5-minute drive from Lahontan, offering options for private jet owners, or commuter jet options to the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. About one if five homes in Lahontan are occupied full-time. Thanks to the availability of commuter airlines that allow owners to live largely in Lahontan or the neighboring communities of Martis Camp and Schaffer's Mill, new charter schools have sprung up in Truckee, and the Martis Valley (which includes Lahontan) now has its own K-12 campus with the Tahoe Expeditionary Academy.
Architectural Trends at Lahontan Golf & Country Club
Situated on the valley floor near the base of Northstar, Lahontan has an expansive feel, but it is a tight-knit community of just over 500 homesites planned around the winding greens of its championship golf course. A private clubhouse at the start of the course features a bar, elegant dining room and fitness center. The Craftsman-style Lodge designed by noted Tahoe architect Greg Faulkner is a masterpiece that pairs natural materials like granite, big beams, and forged steel with elegant finish carpentry. It's a style reminiscent of Greene & Greene and the late 19th Century Arts & Crafts movement, and a style that for years laid the foundation for many of Tahoe's most beautiful estate properties.
History of Lahontan Golf & Country Club
Lahontan was developed in the late-1990s, and it launched a trend in Truckee resort living that helped propel the success of other popular resorts like neighboring Martis Camp and Schaffer's Mill. The Clubhouse and Lodge are reminiscent of old Julia Morgan and Greene & Greene designs featuring big timbers and large granite boulders. Timeless as it might seem, the Craftsman-style homes that defined the architecture of "Old Tahoe" has given way to a more modern aesthetic featuring flat roofs, exposed steel, and what I like to call "Complex Simplicity." Lahontan was slower than some communities to embrace the more contemporary designs, but newly built homes there in recent years are almost all moving in that direction. Some new builds in Lahontan employ the old world look of gabled, steep pitched roofs and wide shiplap wooden siding on the exterior, with more contemporary, cool palettes on the interior. But a few (and not coincidentally, the most expensive) showcase walls of glass or steel, flat roofs, and exposed I-beams.
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