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The Best Places in Truckee

The best places in Truckee, according to the experts: the Forbes Travel Guide and the Michelin Guide have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Ritz-Carlton Spa, Lake Tahoe comes out on top.

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  1. Sixteen treatment rooms keep this Forbes Four Star mountain spa feeling more like a private retreat than a hotel amenity. Organic facials and massages lean on seasonal ingredients, and the treatment rooms look straight out at towering pines, which does most of the interior decorator's work for free. The fireplace lounge afterward is the kind of place where people lose track of entire afternoons.

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  2. Ski-in/ski-out access mid-mountain at Northstar Resort means you can theoretically go straight from bed to chairlift without touching a parking lot. This Forbes Four Star resort leans into the alpine lodge fantasy hard: a great room instead of a lobby, fireplaces in every room, and balconies facing Martis Valley. The heated outdoor pool keeps going through winter, and a spa handles whatever the mountain did to your legs.


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