Echo Summit
Echo Summit is notable for being the location (sometimes listed as "South Lake Tahoe") of the 1968 U.S. Olympic track and field trials for men, held September 6–16, a month before the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. (The women's trials were at low altidude, in Walnut, California.) The Echo Summit site opened in July as a training camp for high-altitude acclimation, being higher than the Olympic Stadium. The picturesque location was on the cover of the that month's issue of "Track and Field News." The original men's trials were in Los Angeles in late June, but a second round of trials was added to the training camp.