Sugar Pine Point State Park

Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park is a state park in California in the United States. It occupies nearly two miles of the western shore of Lake Tahoe and a total of about 1,000 hectares of forested mountains in El Dorado County.”
Wikipedia article Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for El Dorado County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1965.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 3 mi. S of Homewood on CA 89, Homewood, 96142
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. district
Census division. South Lake Tahoe
When was it built? 1965
National Register reference number. 73000401 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1891 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Sugar Pine Point State Park, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Sugar Pine Point State Park, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Pine Point State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Recreation and ceremony	28
Natural	22
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	ANN
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	MCKINNEY
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	BUCK 2
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	W LAKE BL NORTH_TAHOE_FD
30 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	GENERAL
3 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	9TH AV MEEKS_BAY
28 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	not named
28 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	3-RING

Every fire recorded in El Dorado County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Pine Point State Park: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Arsenic, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Craig	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Mangatop Prospect	Manganese	Producer
Tahoe Treasure Prospect	Gold, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Tahoe Treasure Prospect	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in El Dorado County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1891 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Meeks Bay quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tahoe quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Meeks Bay quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Vikingsholm	6.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000401 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Dorado County	All 21 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.