Donner Pass

Donner Pass is a huge step, and the highest point along Interstate 80 in Northern California Sierra Nevada. The wheelbase is nine miles west of Truckee, California. At an altitude of 7,085 meters, the pitch is to travel considerable historical importance in terms of barrier function and consequent loss of lives. perished during the winter 1846-1847, more than forty people from the Donner party as the result of their inability to get through the pass. Donner Passnarrow and has a strong accent from the East, with a gradual increase from the west.

For the first settlers in the western half of the nineteenth century, which was traveling on the pass very difficult. The passage receives large amounts of snow on average 415 cm of snow annually and is one of the snowiest places in the United States. The pass can also be very windy, winter storms bring winds of more than a hundred miles an hour.

In 1968, the Central PacificRailroad finished building the first railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains to cross. The construction of this railway line completed lasted more than five years, with the last phase, a tunnel 1,506 feet through Donner Pass. In 1913 a street called Lincoln Highway, over Donner Pass was closed. Lincoln Highway was the first road to cross to America. In the early 1960s, Interstate 80 opened, a sharp increase in the accessibility of the pass.

The pass is now a popularfree place for skiing, hiking, mountaineering and ice climbing. It is located 180 miles northeast of San Francisco, which is the closest ski around the Bay Area. Donner Pass is home to two ski resorts, Boreal Ski Resort Sugar Bowl Ski Resort. Make plans to visit up today!