Truckee, CA
Donner Lake, lot by lot
Donner Lake is generational: cabins pass down, lakefronts trade rarely, and every hundred feet of shoreline behaves differently. Dock rights, road noise from the north shore, afternoon wind on the west end. I've walked this shoreline with buyers for fourteen years.
$1.35M
Median sale
17
Days on market
22
My closings here
Demo market snapshot; a live site pulls these from MLS data.
What Erin knows about Donner Lake
- Dock and buoy rights are the first question on any lakefront, and the paperwork is often older than the cabin
- South-shore sun versus north-shore access is the fundamental trade; I map it for every buyer
- Older cabins carry septic and foundation questions that scare lenders; I know which inspectors to trust
- West-end afternoon wind is real; sailors love it, paddleboarders don't
Recent Donner Lake results
Lakefront cabin
A generational sale with dock rights older than the cabin; both families left the table happy.
South-shore cabin
Septic surprise at inspection; solved with a credit instead of a canceled escrow.
From Donner Lake clients
★★★★★
Donner Lake · Bought“Erin walked the Donner Lake shoreline with us four separate weekends before we wrote a single offer. She knew every dock's paperwork before we asked.”
★★★★★
Donner Lake · Sold“The septic inspection could have killed our lake sale. Erin turned it into a credit and kept both sides at the table. That's the job.”
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