Three of them were built for the Games: the Blyth Memorial Arena and the Papoose Peak Olympic Jumping Hill, which were both dismantled around 20 years after the Games, and the Alpine skiing slopes, which still exist today and remain in use.
The three temporary venues were dismantled right after the Games, as planned in the bid: the East Rink, the Speed Skating Oval and McKinney Creek Stadium.
The Alpine skiing slopes are the only venues still in use today. Thanks to the Olympic Winter Games 1960, the resort has evolved from a ski destination with a single chairlift into one of the finest ski areas in the United States. In 2012 it merged with neighbouring Alpine Meadows to become Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, home to 6,000 skiable acres (2,400 hectares), 270 trails and an advanced network of 31 lifts. The resort attracts 600,000 visitors a year and was recently voted Best Ski Resort in North America for three years in a row by USA Today.
Situated 16 miles (26 km) south of the resort, McKinney Creek Stadium hosted the cross-country skiing, Nordic combined (cross-country leg) and biathlon events. Though its seating and facilities were taken down after the Games were over, its trails were restored for public use in 2010. The resort now has a Nordic centre of its own, with 18 kilometres of trails.
Papoose Peak Olympic Jumping Hill was used for the ski jumping competition and the ski jumping leg of the Nordic combined. Dismantled in the late 1970s, having staged the US National Ski Jumping Championships in 1976, it is now the site of one of the ski resort’s 31 lifts.
With its artificial ice, the Olympic Speed Skating Oval saw three world records broken and staged the first women’s speed skating events in Olympic history. It too was dismantled after the Games and the site converted into a car park.
A centrepiece of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games, the 11,000-capacity Blyth Memorial Ice Arena was a much-used and popular skating venue and a training base for the United States’ leading figure skaters. Its roof collapsed in 1983 as a result of heavy snowfall, leading to its demolition later that year. The site is now used as a car park, mostly serving the visitors coming to use the ski resort.
The Olympic Village was built in 1959, in response to the resort’s relative lack of accommodation at the time. Offering a capacity of 1,200, it lay within walking distance of all the competition venues, with the exception of McKinney Creek Stadium. After the Games it was used as a hotel and then a national training centre. It now operates as the Olympic Village Inn, providing accommodation for visitors to the resort.