Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
SR 89 is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System; [12] however, it is only a scenic highway as designated by Caltrans from the El Dorado-Placer county line to a point 3.2 miles west of the US 395 junction, [13] meaning that it is a substantial section of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the ...
SR 174 – Colfax, Grass Valley: Exit numbers based on SR 20 mileage; northern terminus of SR 174: R13.61 [N 4] 182B: Idaho Maryland Road: Northbound signage: East Main Street: Southbound signage: R14.27 [N 4] 183A: Dorsey Drive: R14.80 [N 4] 183B: Brunswick Road: Nevada City: R15.92 [N 4] 185A: Gold Flat Road / Ridge Road: Signed as exit 185 ...
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.The segment of I-80 in California runs east from San Francisco across the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge to Oakland, where it turns north and crosses the Carquinez Bridge before turning back northeast through the Sacramento Valley.
Marker along SR 20 Donner Summit near the eastern terminus of SR 20. The east end of SR 20, from Bear Valley (just below Emigrant Gap) to Nevada City, closely follows a branch of the Truckee Route of the California Trail, first used by California-bound emigrants in 1850. [4]
Monument to the Donner Party in Donner Memorial State Park. The Donner Party ordeal is arguably Truckee's most famous historical event. In 1846, a group of settlers from Illinois, originally known as the Donner-Reed Party but now usually referred to as the Donner Party, became snowbound in early fall as a result of several trail mishaps, poor decision-making, and an early onset of winter that ...
State Route 174 (SR 174) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.The two-lane 13-mile (21 km) highway in the western Sierra Nevada, added to the state highway system in 1933, connects Interstate 80 in Colfax with SR 20/SR 49 in Grass Valley, crossing the Bear River next to a 1924 concrete arch bridge.
Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States.As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860.Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno.
The 1982 Official Nevada Highway Map was the first to note I-80 as a contiguous freeway across the state. All of the business loops for I-80 in Nevada use the historical route of US 40. I-80 is also known in Nevada as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway after the former president of the same name and the Purple Heart Trail after such military ...