Martis Camp Summer 2026: The Season the Lake Moved Closer

For almost a decade, a summer day at Martis Camp had a familiar geometry. You started at the Family Barn, worked in a Fazio round or a lap through the Aerial Adventure Park, then made a decision about Tahoe: drive the twenty minutes to the Beach Club at Chinquapin, or skip it. The lake was a side trip. The gates were the center.

Summer 2026 rearranges that. This is the first season members can spend the day at the Club's new lakefront in Tahoe Vista, on the parcel that operated for nearly fifty years as the Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort. It is not another Beach Shack. It is a second, much larger lake footprint, and it changes what a Martis Camp weekend actually looks like.

What the Tahoe Vista purchase actually is

The transaction closed quietly last October and was announced in November. A longtime family-run resort on Lake Tahoe's North Shore has changed hands, and Martis Camp Club has completed its acquisition of the 3.2-acre Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort, a property known for one of the lake's largest sandy beaches within a commercially zoned area. The property at 6834 N. Lake Blvd. in Tahoe Vista closed in October and is part of a three-property off-market sale to the private club.

Three numbers matter here, and they matter in relation to each other:

• 3.2 acres of commercially zoned lakefront land
• ~275 feet of lakeshore frontage
• Nearly 50 years of continuous family operation as a resort

For context, the existing Beach Club at Chinquapin sits on a smaller footprint with a shared-use arrangement and a private 35-foot yacht available by reservation. The Mourelatos parcel is a different scale of thing. The purchase includes 3.2 acres of prime lakeside land and over 275 feet of lakeshore, which is why the Club's own summer messaging now refers to two distinct water experiences: the original Beach Club, and the newly branded Lake Club on the site formerly known as Mourelatos.

The Club has been deliberate about not treating this as a teardown. Colin O'Hanlon, Chief Operating Officer of Martis Camp Club, framed the immediate focus as maintaining the integrity, hospitality, and welcoming spirit of the property while thoughtfully exploring ways to enhance the experience for members. Translation: don't expect a rebuild in July. Expect the existing beach, the existing dock, and a rolling set of improvements that respect what Alex Mourelatos and his family built.

The first summer the boat lives closer to the beach

The Club's summer 2026 preview is unusually specific about this being a debut season. This is the first summer where members can utilize Martis Camp's recent purchase of the Mourelatos Lake Tahoe Resort and spend days at the Lake Club on the shores of Lake Tahoe, along with the ability to Cruise Tahoe on the MC Yacht.

If you have owned in the neighborhood for a few years, you already know that the twenty-minute drive down 267 to the Beach Club works best as a half-day. You go, you swim, you eat, you come back for the Fazio twilight or a concert. The Lake Club changes that arithmetic. Between the additional beach square footage, the extra frontage, and the reworked logistics of moving guests between the two properties and the yacht, a full lake day now sits inside the amenity map without asking members to give up their afternoon.

The practical read for a homeowner who's been here a while: your default summer schedule is probably overweight on the Camp side of the gate and underweight on the water side. That was the correct calibration before. It is not the correct calibration for this June through September.

The Family Barn stops being an all-day destination

The other shift is more subtle, and it lives in the concert series. The Summer Concert Series remains one of the highlights of the season, transforming the Family Barn amphitheater into an unforgettable outdoor venue, and performers include nationally-recognized artists such as Chris Kelley, Red Hot Revolution, and Sugar Ray.

Sugar Ray is the headline get. That is a lineup calibrated for members who came of age in the late 1990s and now own the second homes, and it will draw the biggest crowd of the summer to the grass amphitheater. Chris Kelley and Red Hot Revolution are the connective tissue: the country and cover-band evenings that fill the Thursday and Saturday rhythm around them.

Combined with the Fourth of July programming the Club has always leaned into — Kids Camp Out, the Family Barn Birthday, the Fantastic Fourth Celebration and the Summer Family Festival — the Barn's role reorganizes. It becomes the evening venue and the kids' daytime venue, but it is no longer the reason to skip the lake.

The reshaped week, in practical terms

Here is what the calendar actually looks like now if you use the whole membership:

1. Morning at the Camp. Coffee at the Family Barn, a round on the Fazio course, or a session at the Putting Park. Kids move to summer programs or the Aerial Adventure Park's ropes course, which the Club still lists among its family draws.
2. Midday on the water. Instead of the shorter Beach Shack visit, a longer stretch at the Lake Club in Tahoe Vista. If you have booked the MC Yacht in advance, this is the day it earns its keep. If you haven't, the 275 feet of frontage means paddleboards and swim time are no longer a fight for square footage.
3. Late afternoon back inside the gates. Tennis or pickleball at the Tennis Pavilion, a swim at the Family Barn pool, or a stop at the catch-and-release fishing lake.
4. Evening at the Barn amphitheater. A wine dinner in the Cliff Room on Thursdays with Executive Chef Conor Ball, who was named 2024 Club + Resort Chef of The Year, then the concert on the grass.

The point is not that the amenities are new. Most of them are not. The point is that the day now has a real anchor at the lake, so the drive stops feeling like a detour.

Why the acquisition read the way it did

The Mourelatos family had options. They chose a buyer that had already built a philanthropic footprint in the region. Through the Martis Camp Foundation, members have contributed over $12 million to local nonprofits and scholarship programs that support North Tahoe and Truckee students.

That track record was the argument. Alex Mourelatos, whose family operated the property for nearly five decades, said the choice came down to shared values around the community and the shoreline itself. And the Club's board framed the acquisition in stewardship language rather than expansion language. John Cassidy, President of the Martis Camp Club Board of Directors, called the Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort a cherished part of Tahoe's heritage and said the Club is honored to carry its legacy forward and to continue strengthening long-standing partnerships and philanthropic efforts throughout the region.

The regulatory context matters too. Commercially zoned lakefront parcels of this size do not come to market often on the North Shore, and shoreline of this scale is essentially finite. A resale in ten years will not replicate this.

The quieter Tahoe Vista angle

There is a piece of this worth noticing if you spend any time on the North Shore corridor. The Lake Club sits on North Lake Boulevard, between Kings Beach and Carnelian Bay, on a stretch of Tahoe Vista that has been slowly reweighted over the last few years. A larger private membership presence on that shoreline will change the mix of people on the beach next door, on the water at that end of the lake, and eventually at the restaurants and coffee stops along 28.

For a resident already inside the gates, that has one obvious implication: your favorite Tahoe Vista lunch spot is about to see more familiar faces. For the North Shore more broadly, it is a story worth watching through the fall.

What to actually do this summer

A short list, aimed at homeowners who already know the Camp Lodge menu by heart:

• Book the MC Yacht early. With two lake locations now in rotation, reservation pressure is higher than it has been.
• Plan a full Lake Club day, not a Beach Shack drop-in. Bring guests who have never seen the North Shore from the water.
• Put Sugar Ray on the calendar the day the schedule opens. It is the summer's largest draw.
• Use Thursday wine dinners as your rehearsal for weekend hosting. Chef Ball's pairings are the strongest test kitchen for what a private dinner at your own house should taste like.
• Walk the trail network at dusk. The Camp is quieter on the days the lake is busy, and the light in July on the interior trails is the argument for owning here in the first place.

Summer 2026 is not a story about a new logo on the beach towel. It is a story about the community's gravitational center moving three miles south, onto the water, for the first time. The Club spent a decade building an inland lifestyle. This is the year the lake catches up.

If you own here and want a read on how this expansion is reshaping resale conversations across Martis Valley, or if you are curious about what a lake-anchored summer routine looks like from a home you don't yet own, Kaili Sanchez knows this stretch of the North Shore as a resident first and a broker second. Discover Tahoe Living. Start Your Personalized Search.