Cruise 3 • Sierra Nevada Northern Route
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Historic building in Truckee Photo by C.N. Plummer
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Rainbow Bridge at Donner Pass Photo by Leon Schegg
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On this cruise, you will see:
- many original highway alignments and pavement on Rippey and Sisley Roads from the towns of Rocklin and Loomis to Newcastle
- old winding highway through Newcastle
- historic downtown Auburn
- mountain towns of Applegate, Weimar, Colfax, Gold Run, Alta and Baxter
- vistas at Emigrant Gap
- Hampshire Rocks Road
- remnants of the original 1913 Lincoln Highway and a historic highway display at the U.S. Forest Service Visitor Center at Big Bend
- original highway alignments on Donner Pass Road
- vistas on top of Donner Pass at the famous Rainbow Bridge
- Transcontinental Railroad tunnels and train sheds over Donner Pass and the original Lincoln Highway tracks up over the rocks
- Donner Lake
- Donner Memorial Park and Monument
- historic downtown Truckee
- exciting and desolate Dog Valley Route, which was last used as the Lincoln Highway from 1913 to 1926
- Prosser Creek Reservoir and Stampede Reservoir
- Verdi, Nevada
The return trip to Sacramento will be on Interstate 80 with views of alternate Lincoln Highway alignments at Hinton and Glenshire Roads.
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