Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail is a 9.8-mile out-and-back near Meadow Lake Park, CA. It climbs 1,292 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 23/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi5,896 – 6,493 ft · steepest grade: 20%10.3 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.34519, -120.20507
Nearest town Meadow Lake Park, CA
Directions
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Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
9.8 mi · ▲ 1,292 ft · 3 hr 55 min
Elevation 5,897–6,492 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 39.34519, -120.20507
Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:01 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 450 ftBear right, heading SE.
- 450 ftBear right, heading S.
- 500 ftBear left onto East Perimeter Trail, heading SE.
- 1.9 miBear right onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading N.
- 200 ftTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading NW.
- 450 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading N.
- 1.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 250 ftBear right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading NE.
- 1.1 miReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
- 1.1 miBear left, heading S.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading SE.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 1 miTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading SW.
- 450 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading S.
- 200 ftBear left onto East Perimeter Trail, heading SE.
- 1.9 miBear right, heading S.
- 450 ftBear left, heading S.
- 450 ftBear left, heading S.
- 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
95% dirt5% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 7:01 PM
Other ways to reach this destination
- 2.3 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 2.3 mi · loop · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 2.5 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 3.3 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 3.5 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 3.5 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 3.6 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
- 3.6 mi · out & back · via Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail
More from this trailhead
- SR 89 Trail 5.4 mi · ▲ 394 ft
- SR 89 Trail 5.4 mi · ▲ 394 ft
- Pioneer Trail 4.5 mi · ▲ 312 ft
- Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail 9.8 mi · ▲ 1,292 ft
- East Perimeter Trail 3.3 mi · ▲ 285 ft
- East Perimeter Trail 3.3 mi · ▲ 285 ft
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