Beaver Pond & Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road is a 3.8-mile out-and-back in Donner Memorial State Park near Donner Lake Village, CA. The route reaches Beaver Pond. It climbs 906 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi5,955 – 6,408 ft · steepest grade: 17%3.9 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.32543, -120.28758
Nearest town Donner Lake Village, CA
Directions
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Beaver Pond & Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road
3.8 mi · ▲ 906 ft · 1 hr 43 min
Elevation 5,956–6,409 ft
Out & Back · Donner Memorial State Park
Trailhead: 39.32543, -120.28758
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:03 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading N.
- 1.1 miSharp left, heading SE.
- 0.3 miSharp left, heading SE.
- 350 ftPass Beaver Pond.
- 50 ftSharp left onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading SE.
- 0.4 miReach Beaver Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miSharp right, heading NE.
- 450 ftSharp right, heading NW.
- 0.3 miSharp right, heading N.
- 1.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
97% dirt3% gravel
Weather
Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 7:03 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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- Beaver Pond 3.1 mi · ▲ 796 ft
- Billy Mac Canyon Viewpoint 2.3 mi · ▲ 528 ft
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