Donner Memorial State Park
Donner Memorial State Park is a California State Park, located at the town of Truckee, California, United States. The park preserves a portion of the Donner Camp site, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped just short of Donner Pass by weather during the winter of 1846–1847.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Park
- Description: state park and memorial in California, United States
- Also known as: “Donner Memorial SP”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Truckee and Norden.
Truckee
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Truckee is a pleasant town of 17,000 people in the Lake Tahoe region of California. Just east of the Donner Pass on Interstate 80, Truckee is an easy entry point for travelers from the Bay Area to the region.
Norden
Hamlet
Norden is a small unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, about 9 miles west of Truckee. The community is located on a former portion of U.S. Route 40 near Interstate 80 and lies along the historical first transcontinental railroad, 1.5 miles west of Donner Pass. Norden is situated 5 miles west of Donner Memorial State Park.
Polaris
Locality
Polaris was a historic ice farming community located nearly 3 miles east of Truckee, approximately at the intersection of modern day Glenshire Drive and Quail Lane. Polaris is situated 6 miles east of Donner Memorial State Park.
Donner Memorial State Park
- Categories: California state park and memorial
- Location: Nevada County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Donner Memorial State Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Donner Memorial State Park”
- Dutch: “Donner Memorial State Park”
- French: “Donner Camp”
- French: “Donner Memorial State Park”
- French: “Parc d’Etat Donner Memorial”
- French: “parc d’État Donner Memorial”
- French: “Parc d’État Donner Memorial”
- Japanese: “ドナー・メモリアル州立公園”
- Japanese: “州立ドナー記念公園”
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Highlights include Donner Lake Dam and China Cove.
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