Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles west of Truckee, California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 7,093 feet
- Description: mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, California
- Also known as: “Truckey Pass of California Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Donner Peak and Mount Lincoln.
Donner Peak
Peak
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donner Peak is an 8,019-foot-elevation summit in Placer County, California, United States.
Mount Lincoln
Peak
Mount Lincoln is an 8,383-foot-elevation mountain summit in Placer County, California, United States.
Boreal Mountain Resort
Sports venue
Photo: Noah Loverbear, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boreal Mountain California is a ski area in Soda Springs, near the Lake Tahoe area of California. It has six chairlifts and two surface lifts, and offers the only night skiing in Tahoe, until 8 pm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norden and Soda Springs.
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.
Soda Springs
Hamlet
Photo: Drew Jacksich, CC BY 2.0.
Soda Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States. Soda Springs is located 3 miles west of Donner Pass.
Soda Springs
Locality
Soda Springs is a set of springs in Placer County, California that was in the 19th century once the location of a hotel and resort. Soda Springs is located on the North Fork of the American River, 2 miles west of Tinker Knob, and 4 miles north-northwest of Granite Chief. Soda Springs is situated 4½ miles south of Donner Pass.
Donner Pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Placer County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.31598° or 39° 18′ 58″ northLongitude
-120.32157° or 120° 19′ 18″ westElevation
7,093 feet (2,162 metres)Open location code
84FX8M8H+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 10156906942OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Donner Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “pas de Donner”
- Dutch: “Donner Pass”
- French: “Col Donner”
- French: “Donner Pass”
- German: “Donner Pass”
- German: “Donnerpass”
- Hebrew: “מעבר דונר”
- Japanese: “ドナー・パス”
- Japanese: “ドナー峠”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donner Pass”
- Portuguese: “Passo Donner”
- Spanish: “paso Donner”
- Spanish: “Paso Donner”
- Turkish: “Donner Geçidi”
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Highlights include Petroglyphs and Nursery Slab.
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