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Events

Virtual reality tour of Donner Summit and railroad tunnels.

Link to the Donner Party Hike event Registrations for 2025 have begun. If you run into trouble the link is donnerpartyhike.com Download the rack card with general information.

For general inforrmation about the Donner Party Hike event for 2025 go to this link.

The State Park's Speaker Series is at this link
Other State Park events: sierrastateparks.org




 



 

"On Donner Pass “It was bitterly cold, but from the almost pointed summit, the desolation…was sublime indeed. North, east and south, peak rose beyond peak in endless succession while in the west the eye looked far down into a chasm where very ravine and gorge shone and glistened with the spotless white of vase snow fields.  Beyond, instead of the expected Sacramento Valley, nothing broke the magnificent expanse of the mountain chains.” 

Isaac Wister, 1849
from With Golden Visions... page 177 on getting up Roller Pass or Coldstream Pass
 


Above: Rainbow Tavern and Trout Farm. People could fish for trout right outside the hotel and have their fish cooked. Today the Trout Farm is a lawn.

Below: Outiside the Soda Springs Hotel on Highway 40. People parked all along the highway and then went skiiing and patronized buisnesses.

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