In 1950, Ed Clifford and others purchased large tracts of lakeshore property at Lake Almanor from the Red River Lumber Company. They initially focused on the Lake Almanor Peninsula that later evolved into the Lake Almanor Country Club. Thus, the one tract they owned on the west shore of Lake Almanor remained idled. That changed in the early 1970s with the proposed development of Lake Almanor West. In 1974 the first lots were placed on the market of the 615 acre subdivision.