Palisades Tahoe Renames Squaw One and Squaw Creek Chairs

Just two weeks after the resort itself received a name change, Palisades Tahoe has quietly released new names for two of its chairlifts. The Squaw Creek and Squaw One chairlifts have been renamed the Resort Chair and Wa She Shu lift, respectively. No official announcement has been made, but the new names are present on the new trail map (h/t to Liftblog for digging this up).

Palisades Tahoe was known as Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows before its name change on September 13. See Palisades Tahoe's full press release on the name change: https://www.palisadestahoe.com/new-name

Our Take

These name changes may be mildly confusing to returning visitors upon their initial arrival at Palisades Tahoe, and we certainly won’t be surprised if we see some angry comments about the altered monikers. But at the end of the day, a lift is a lift and nothing is changing mechanically for these chairs. The Wa She Shu lift will remain a convenient mid-mountain uphill alternative to the Funitel and Tram, while the Resort chair will remain an outdated, slow lift serving some underrated below-treeline terrain.

On their own, these name changes won’t impact much on these California slopes. That being said, the newly-christened Palisades Tahoe is on track to see a seriously transformed mountain experience thanks to a new base-to-base gondola, which will connect the Olympic Valley and Alpine Meadows sides by lift for the first time. We’ve written about the potential impacts of this project in detail here.

To see how the Palisades Tahoe mountains stack up as they currently exist, check out our outgoing Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows mountain reviews.