Imagine sipping a milkshake so thick your straw stands at attention, so creamy it makes velvet feel rough, and so perfectly flavored it haunts your dreams for weeks afterward.
That’s the daily reality at Jax at the Tracks, a gleaming vintage diner tucked into the mountain town of Truckee, California, where dessert becomes an art form and calories don’t count (at least that’s what you’ll tell yourself).
Nestled in the Sierra Nevada at nearly 6,000 feet elevation, this isn’t some run-of-the-mill shake shack with a pretty facade.
This is a dairy devotee’s paradise disguised as a 1940s diner, where chrome gleams brighter than fresh mountain snow and milkshakes achieve legendary status…