Car Cruise over Echo Summit (South Lake Tahoe)

Original road through the forest Photo by C.N. Plummer

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The one-day caravan begins and ends at:

Crowne Plaza Hotel Sacramento Northeast (formerly Holiday Inn Sacramento I-80 Northeast)
5321 Date Ave
Sacramento, CA 95841
At the Madison Ave. exit off I-80

Departure is at 9:00 AM sharp! Please arrive 15 minutes early. Return time is early evening.

On this cruise, you will see:

• historic 1915 Gold Creek Bridge on Orangevale Avenue in Sacramento
• historic town of Folsom
• original highway alignments on Placerville Road and White Rock Road
• original 14-foot wide paving on Old Bass Lake Road
• historic gold-rush buildings along Mother Lode Road
• 1914 Weber Creek Bridge on Forni Road
• historic downtown Placerville
• Sierra Nevada foothills on US 50
• original highway alignments on Carson Road and on the Pony Express Trail Road from Camino to Pollock Pines
• historic marker for the Great Stage Coach Robbery of 1864
• stone ruins at Pacific House
• Bridalveil Falls
• site of historic Riverton Bridge
• upper Sierra Nevadas on US 50 through Riverton, White Hall, Kyburz, Strawberry and Twin Bridges
• vistas of Sierra Nevada rushing rivers and waterfalls in the early summer
• original highway alignment over Echo Summit on Johnson Pass Road
• lodge at Echo Summit and its vista of the Lake Tahoe basin
• original pine-tree-lined Pioneer Trail
• shore of beautiful Lake Tahoe at Stateline, Nevada

The return trip to Sacramento will be on US 50.

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