Beaver Pond–Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, 3 sights is a 4.2-mile out-and-back in Donner Memorial State Park near Donner, CA. The route passes Beaver Pond and Beaver Pond. It climbs 894 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 mi5,958 – 6,884 ft · steepest grade: 17%4.8 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.31859, -120.31981
Nearest town Donner, CA
Directions
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Beaver Pond–Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, 3 sights
4.2 mi · ▲ 894 ft · 1 hr 51 min
Elevation 5,959–6,883 ft
Out & Back · Donner Memorial State Park
Trailhead: 39.31859, -120.31981
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:03 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading SE.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, heading NE.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Original Lincoln Highway Trail, heading NE.
- 0.1 miBear right, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 0.1 miSharp left, heading E.
- 0.3 miPass Beaver Pond.
- 350 ftSharp right, heading N.
- 0.2 miPass Beaver Pond.
- 400 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 300 ftTurn right onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading E.
- 0.4 miReach Beaver Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 300 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.2 miSharp left, heading SW.
- 0.3 miSharp right, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Original Lincoln Highway Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, heading W.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road Winter Route, heading W.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road, heading W.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
100% dirt
Weather
Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 7:03 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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