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The road curves to the north through Tahoe National Forest before crossing into Nevada County and the town of Truckee. [5] This portion of the highway has been designated the "10th Mountain Division Memorial Highway", honoring the US Army division that lost 992 soldiers during the Italian Campaign in World War II .
A number of trans-Sierra highways have been proposed but never constructed or cancelled. These include: Trans-Sierra Highway, which would have continued State Route 203 from its dead end, was proposed in the 1920s, but the idea was abandoned following the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984.
State Route 267 (SR 267), known as North Shore Boulevard, is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.It connects Interstate 80 in Truckee with State Route 28 in Kings Beach on Lake Tahoe's shoreline.
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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.
The first route near the present US 50 was the Carson Route, laid out in 1848 by an eastward Mormon party that wanted to avoid the Truckee Route and its deep crossings of the Truckee River. The group left Pleasant Valley , southeast of Placerville , on July 3, following Iron Mountain Ridge up to the crest of the Sierra at Carson Pass and then ...
Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census , the population was 16,180, reflecting an increase of 2,316 from the 13,864 counted in the 2000 Census .
The Nevada portion of I-80 follows the paths of the Truckee and Humboldt rivers, which have been used as a transportation corridor since the California Gold Rush of the 1840s. The Interstate also follows the historical routes of the California Trail , first transcontinental railroad , and Feather River Route throughout portions of the state.