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Location in California. Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [ 2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
Donner Memorial State Park. / 39.32000°N 120.24167°W / 39.32000; -120.24167. Donner Memorial State Park is a state park of California, US, preserving the site of the Donner Camp, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped by weather during the winter of 1846–1847. Caught without shelter or adequate supplies, members of ...
Donner Lake. / 39.32278°N 120.26444°W / 39.32278; -120.26444. Donner Lake, formerly known as Truckee Lake, [ 2] is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake.
Member of General Stephen W. Kearny's company, June 22, 1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by Samuel Brannan, a journalist and elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with Keseberg. Accounts of the ordeal first reached New York City in July 1847. Reporting on the event across the U.S. was ...
Echo Summit is a mountain pass over the Sierra Nevada in the western United States, located in eastern El Dorado County, California. At 7,377 ft (2,249 m) above sea level, it is the highest point on U.S. Route 50 in California, which traverses it at postmile 66.48 between Twin Bridges and Meyers, south of Lake Tahoe .
Donner Pass: 5-10 feet. Blue Canyon: 4-7 feet. Lake Tahoe: 3-6 feet. Pollock Pines: 1-3 feet. Up to this point in the season, much of the Sierra has been running below average in snowfall. In some ...
Website. www.donnerskiranch.com. Donner Ski Ranch is a budget-oriented, family owned ski area located on Donner Summit in the Tahoe National Forest of Nevada County, California. [ 1][ 2] It is owned by Janet and Marshall Tuttle, who purchased it after it went into bankruptcy. [ 3] The area it is on has been used for skiing since 1937. [ 4]
Donner Peak is located one mile southeast of Donner Pass, on land managed by Tahoe National Forest. It is situated in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with precipitation runoff from the peak draining to Donner Lake. Topographic relief is modest as the summit rises 2,100 feet (640 meters) above Donner Lake in 1.5 mile.