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State Route 49 (SR 49) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California that passes through many historic mining communities of the 1849 California gold rush and it is known as the Golden Chain Highway. [2] The road was initially lobbied in 1919 by the Mother Lode Highway Association, a group of locals and historians.
The North Yuba River, 61.1 miles (98.3 km) long, [2] rises at Yuba Pass along California State Route 49, near the eastern boundary of the Tahoe National Forest. It flows southwest then west through a 3,000-foot-deep (910 m) canyon past the communities of Downieville (where it receives the Downie River from the north) and Goodyears Bar.
Yuba Pass [1] [2] is a mountain pass on State Route 49 in Sierra County in the U.S. state of California.The pass lies at an elevation of 6,710 ft (2,050 m) [1] about 3.4 air miles west of Sattley, on the divide between the North Yuba River and the Middle Fork Feather River (Sierra Valley).
High water in the South Yuba River at the old CA-49 bridge, 8 January 2017 Interstate 80 East crossing the South Yuba River in Placer County (1965). The 65.0-mile-long (104.6 km) [3] South Yuba River is a left-entering tributary of the Yuba River originating in the northern Sierra Nevada at Lake Angela in Nevada County about three quarters of a mile north of Donner Pass, about three miles east ...
The river flows west through meadows, then south into a gorge, turning west again, followed by California State Route 49. The river's four major tributaries, the Downie River, Goodyears Creek, Canyon Creek and Slate Creek, enter from the right before the river abruptly turns south at the New Bullards Bar Reservoir, formed by the New Bullards ...
State Route 49. SR 41 at Oakhurst to SR 89 at Sattley. Part of the Yuba-Donner Scenic Byway (also a National Forest Scenic Byway), scenic drive through the Yuba River canyon past several historic mining communities of the California Gold Rush. Designated July 14, 1971, in Sierra County: Yuba County to Yuba Pass; U.S. Route 50. SR 49 in ...
Philo Haven. Sierra City (Sierra, Spanish for "mountain range") is a census-designated place in Sierra County, California, United States. [2] The elevation of Sierra City is 4,147 feet (1,264 m), [2] and the town is situated in the canyon of the North Yuba River on California State Route 49, twelve miles northeast of the county seat of Sierra County, Downieville.
Goodyears Bar, known as Slaughter's Bar before 1851, is a census-designated place [4] (CDP) in Sierra County, California, United States. Goodyears Bar is located along the North Yuba River and California State Route 49 3.25 miles (5.23 km) west-southwest of Downieville. Goodyears Bar has a post office with ZIP code 95944. [5]