Everline Resort & Spa

Dogs aren’t allowed at Everline Resort & Spa. The resort’s Know Before You Go page states it plainly: “Family pets are not permitted. Bringing a pet to the Resort will result in a room recovery fee.” The amount is published in the same section. “You will be charged a room recovery fee in the amount of $250 per pet and you will be asked to take your pet to a local, third party boarding facility.” That $250 isn’t a pet fee that buys a dog a night. It’s what a dog on the property costs, and the dog still leaves.

The ban is written property-wide. Nothing on the site carves out the grounds, the golf course, the meadow, or the pool deck, and the four on-site restaurants get no separate pet language of their own. Service animals are the one exception, worded narrowly: Everline “makes accommodations for service animals that perform work or tasks as defined by the American Disabilities Act (ADA).” The same page adds that fraudulently misrepresenting an animal as a service animal, or as a service animal in training, is unlawful.

This is the property that spent decades as Resort at Squaw Creek, and plenty of older listings and booking pages still file it under that name. The policy reads the same under both. It sits at 400 Resort Road at the head of Olympic Valley, off Highway 89 north of Tahoe City. The golf course and the meadow start at the building’s edge, and the Palisades Tahoe runs rise behind it.

Everline doesn’t name the boarding facility it would send a dog to. Down Highway 89 in Tahoe City, Basecamp allows dogs in select rooms and common areas for a flat $40 per visit, and the paved lakefront and river trails there take leashed dogs.