On Donner Pass Road, on the left when traveling west.
The nearby monument was envisioned in 1929 by C. F. McGlashan, Truckee’s foremost resident 1872-1931 and author of the 1880 classic, The History of the Donner Party; P.M. Weddell, who placed wooden signs on the Donner Trail from Verdi, Nevada . . . — — Map (db m176342) HM
On Cold Stream Road west of Deerfield Drive, on the right when traveling west.
The Emigrant Trail in the pioneer days of California turned to the south at this point for approximately three miles, then west across the summit of the Sierras about a mile south of the present railroad.
It was here that the Donner Party . . . — — Map (db m274172) HM
