Brockway (formerly, Hot Springs) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California.

Soon afterwards, a spur railroad was built to Tahoe City from Truckee, and it became the first real resort community at the lake.

Old "grain grinding holes" (Washo: gámuŋ [3]) are visible in massive talus boulders along the shore.

A "commodious" hotel was constructed around 1869, shortly after the completion of the road over Brockway Summit.

Brockway was once located in two different states as surveyors establishing the California-Nevada border (which makes its turn to the north in the middle of the lake) mistakenly placed the line a half mile west of its proper location, placing Brockway in Nevada.