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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.
By the 1850s, Emigrant Pass, slightly south of OR 58's crossing at Willamette Pass, was being used by emigrants to the Oregon Territory as a way over the Cascades.In October 1853, a party of 1,500 was almost stranded at the pass, but was saved from a Donner Party-style tragedy by nearby settlers who had begun to improve the route up the Middle Fork Willamette River earlier that year as a ...
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 ...
June 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM. Salem is expanding its speed camera program to include two high-volume intersections starting Monday. Salem Police officials said the changes are being made due to safety ...
In Oregon, 1,939 bus drivers surveyed last year reported 1,427 drivers illegally passing their buses in a single day. Oregon Legislature allows cameras to catch drivers who illegally pass school buses
Aerial view of Interstate 5 in downtown Medford, where it travels on an elevated viaduct. I-5 enters Oregon at the California state line in southern Jackson County.The highway travels northeast along a ridge in the Siskiyou Mountains, with a maximum grade of 6 percent, to Siskiyou Summit; [12] at 4,310 feet (1,310 m), it is the highest point on all of I-5 and one of the highest points on the ...
The fourth iteration of Ironman 70.3 Oregon is expected to attract more than 2,500 visitors to the Salem area. Here's what to know. Ironman 70.3 Oregon 2024: Road closures, traffic impacts in Salem
Oregon Route 22 is an Oregon state highway that runs between the Oregon Coast community of Hebo, to a junction with U.S. Route 20 near Santiam Pass in the Cascade Mountains.OR 22 traverses several highways of the Oregon state highway system, including the Three Rivers Highway No. 32, part of the Salmon River Highway No. 39, the Willamina–Salem Highway No. 30, part of the Salem Highway No. 72 ...