Join the Campaign to Acquire and Renovate High Mountain Lodge

High Mountain Lodge is a Nature Healing Center for Youth

Since our founding in 2006, we have served over 30,000 diverse youth from across Northern California through our multi-day Sierra Experience programs and Natural High Retreats, combining environmental literacy with social-emotional learning and mountain adventures.

Requests for our multi-day programs, particularly those serving young people with higher needs, have dramatically increased. Our effort to rent lodging space from others has become more expensive and difficult to come by as many youth serving organizations are no longer willing to share space with outside groups.

Located on Donner Summit, at an elevation of over 7,200 feet, is High Mountain Lodge, a beautiful and historic 100-year-old stone lodge situated on 23 acres of spectacular high conservation value land.

Video Tour of High Mountain Lodge

The Opportunity

Gateway Mountain Center has an exclusive opportunity to purchase this 5,800 square-foot lodge and a three-bedroom, two-bathroom staff house. Creating a permanent home for our naturebased Sierra Experience adventure programming and a basecamp for our proprietary Natural High Retreats. Once renovated, High Mountain Lodge will be one of a handful of fully wheelchair accessible ADA-compliant lodges in the Northern Sierra.

The good news is that we are already halfway to making a Nature Healing Center for youth a reality. The California Department of Health Care Services has awarded Gateway Mountain Center $1.8 million toward the purchase and renovation of High Mountain Lodge and we have received an award of $90,000 from the Tahoe Truckee Airport District. What remains is the need for $1.3 million in additional funding. We believe this is a special opportunity to come together to create a legacy of healing for our young people who will inherit and ultimately lead our increasingly uncertain world.

Budget

Purchase + ADA Construction/Renovation
Purchase Price $1,700,000
Renovation Costs $ 1,487,525
Total Costs $3,187,525

Funds Awarded To Date
BHCIP Grant $1,800,000
Tahoe Truckee Airport Partner Grant $90,000
Total Funds Awarded $1,890,000
Total Funds Left To Raise: $1,297,525

Join Us

We invite you to join us in raising the remaining funds to acquire and renovate this amazing property. To learn more, contact Kate Frankfurt, Director of Philanthropy, at kate@sierraexperience.org