New Tours Highlight Lincoln Highway Across California
By Paul Gilger
Tour 2 • Sierra Nevada Southern Route
On this tour, you will see:
- Folsom Boulevard out to the historic
town of Folsom
- the original highway alignments on
Placerville Road and White Rock Road
- original 14-foot wide paving on Old
Bass Lake Road
- the historic gold-rush buildings along
Mother Lode Road
- the 1914 Weber Creek Bridge on Forni
Road
- historic downtown Placerville
- the Sierra Nevada foothills on US 50
- the original highway alignments on
Carson Road and on the Pony Express
Trail Road from Camino to Pollack
Pines
- the newly discovered old roads at
Fresh Pond and Pacific House
- original stone retaining walls at 29 Mile
Tract
- the 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
- the original highway alignment over
Echo Summit on Johnson Pass Road
- the lodge at Echo Summit and its vista of
the Lake Tahoe basin
- the original pine-tree-lined Pioneer Trail
- the shore of beautiful Lake Tahoe at
Stateline, Nevada
The return trip to Sacramento will be on
US 50.
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