California and Nevada resorts: Summer means contruction

For many California and Nevada resorts summer means CONSTRUCTION. Now more than ever, mountain communities are expanding, improving and enhancing to create the ultimate guest experience - all while preserving their spectacular natural beauty. Click on an image to find out more about these resorts and their projects.

Construction is in full swing on Sugar Bowl's Judah Residential Project.

This season Alpine Meadows will feature a new winch cat for extensive high-angle grooming, an expanded terrain park and a remodeled base-area lobby and reception area.

Bear Valley's old Hibernation Lift is out of the ground making way for a new high-speed quad lift that will begin operation in the 2006-07 ski season.

The newest attraction at Mammoth Mountain for the 2006/07 winter season will be the state-of-the-art Top of the Sierra Interpretive Center.

Work on a chair lift takes place at the base of the mountain at Mountain High

New ticket windows are constructed at Mountain High.

Workers plant flowers in the Village at Northstar-at-Tahoe.

Construction in the Village at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Future developments include shops, restaurants and condominiums.

Northstar’s improvement plan includes two new lifts, relocating the cross-country center, expanding its snowmaking system, adding new parking lots and additional terrain.