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  2. Olympic Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    Olympic Valley is located in eastern Placer County, California, in a valley of the same name. The 3.7-mile-long (6.0 km), 0.6-mile-wide (0.97 km) valley is formed by Washeshu Creek as it flows into the Truckee River. [17] The community sits along California State Route 89 halfway between Truckee and Tahoe City.

  3. Placer County, California - Wikipedia

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    Placer County, California. ( 2020) Placer County ( / ˈplæsər / PLASS-ərr; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. [4] The county seat is Auburn. [5] Placer County is included in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.

  4. Palisades Tahoe - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .palisadestahoe .com. Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw".

  5. Squaw Valley - Wikipedia

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    Squaw Valley may refer to: Communities. Yokuts Valley, California, formerly known as Squaw Valley, a census-designated place in Fresno County. Olympic Valley, California, formerly known as Squaw Valley, an unincorporated community in Placer County. Landmarks. Palisades Tahoe, formerly known as Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California.

  6. Category:Squaw Valley, Placer County, California - Wikipedia

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    This category is located at Category:Olympic Valley, California. Note: This category should be empty. See the instructions for more information. Administrators: If this category name is unlikely to be entered on new pages, and all incoming links have been cleaned up, click here to delete.

  7. Talk:Olympic Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    Squaw Valley, Placer County, California → Olympic Valley, California – The proposed title was proposed in January but rejected. Olympic Valley, Placer County, California, is a more recent workaround for the fact that Olympic Valley, California, is already occupied by a redirect. (There's only one Olympic Valley in all of California, so ...

  8. Yokuts Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    Yokuts Valley, formerly "Squaw Valley" is a unincorporated community located in Fresno County, California, at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on State Route 180 just below Kings Canyon National Park . As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 3,162, up from 2,691 at the 2000 census.

  9. Granite Chief Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The Granite Chief Wilderness is a 19,048 acre (77 km 2) federally designated wilderness area of the Tahoe National Forest. Created by the California Wilderness Act of 1984, [1] it is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains west of Lake Tahoe in the U.S. state of California. It is managed by the U.S. Forest Service Tahoe National Forest.