New Tours Highlight Lincoln Highway Across California

By Paul Gilger

Tour 3 • Sierra Nevada Northern Route

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	Historic building in Truckee Photo by C.N. Plummer
	Rainbow Bridge at Donner Pass Photo by Leon Schegg

• many original highway alignments and pavement on Rippey and Sisley Roads from the towns of Rocklin and Loomis to Newcastle
• the old winding highway through Newcastle
• historic downtown Auburn
• the mountain towns of Applegate, Weimar, Colfax, Gold Run, Alta and Baxter
• the 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
• the original highway alignments on Donner Pass Road
• the vistas on top of Donner Pass at the famous Rainbow Bridge
• the Transcontinental Railroad tunnels and train sheds over Donner Pass and the original Lincoln Highway tracks up over the rocks
• the Donner Memorial Park and Monument
• Donner Lake
• historic downtown Truckee
• the 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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