New Tours Highlight Lincoln Highway Across California

By Paul Gilger

Tour 2 • Sierra Nevada Southern Route

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

• 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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