Condominium median
$305,000
$425,387 in 2026 money
Mammoth Lakes in 2015
A condominium sold for a median of $305,000 — $425,387 in today’s money, 47% below where it stands now. The Mammoth Times ran 208 stories we can still read.
Snowfall
176"
season total at the main lodge
Housing approved
21
residential units authorised
Lodging tax
$12,600,511
collected by the Town
What happened
- SnowFourth consecutive drought winter, market holds
A fourth straight poor winter arrived in 2014-15, yet Mammoth sales and the $1M-plus segment held up better than expected.
After four poor winter seasons there could be reason to see the market sagging. But it isn’t.
Paul Oster Broker Report → - Snow2014-15 drought season - 176 inches, second worst on record
Mammoth recorded about 176 inches at Main Lodge, the second-lowest season on record after 1976-77 (about 90 inches). January 2015 delivered only about 2.6 inches. The scheduled May 10 close was extended to Memorial Day after roughly 18 inches of late-May snow.
Mammoth Mountain / The Sheet → - SnowExecutive Order B-29-15 - first mandatory statewide water cuts
Governor Brown ordered the first mandatory statewide urban water reductions of 25 percent, announced at a Sierra snow-survey site with near-zero snowpack.
Scientific American / CA Governor's Office → - Town governmentQuality of Life ordinance regulates nightly rentals
The Town adopted a Quality of Life ordinance in late 2015 to regulate nightly rental units as self-managed VRBO and Airbnb listings proliferated.
the “Quality of Life” ordinance passed a year ago is intended to bring increased regulation and greater public safety
Paul Oster Broker Report →
What the paper was writing about
Headlines only, linked to the Mammoth Times. We read the Internet Archive’s copies and cite the paper; the words are theirs.
- 06-17Missing Girl Could be in Local Area
- 06-22Fire Near Markleeville Grows to 15,000 Acres, Smoke Affects Eastside
- 06-26Heat, Smoke Could Be Dangerous This This Week
- 07-02Brain-Eating Ameba kills Inyo resident
- 08-06What's Ahead This Weekend
- 08-15Evidence Of Plague Closes Tuolumne Meadows Campground In Yosemite
- 08-18Walker Fire Slowing Down; Tioga Pass Road Reopened
- 08-22Smoke Advisory for Eastern Sierra: Here is What You Need to Know
- 08-24Walker Fire 81 Percent Contained
- 08-26Rough Fire Grows to 55,000 Acres But Is Also 21 Percent Contained
- 08-27What To Do This Weekend
- 08-28Rough Fire Hits 72,300 Acres; Smoky "At Least Another Week"
- 09-01Rough Fire Closes Westside Recreation Sites Labor Day Weekend
- 09-04What's Up This Weekend
194 more stories from 2015 are in the corpus.
The ground
29 recorded earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the Long Valley Caldera, the largest at M3.7.