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Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail is an 8.4-mile out-and-back near Hobart Mills, CA. It climbs 1,158 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 31/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi5,896 – 6,365 ft · steepest grade: 18%8.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.39441, -120.19252
Nearest town Hobart Mills, CA

Directions

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Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail

8.4 mi · ▲ 1,158 ft · 3 hr 23 min

Elevation 5,897–6,365 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 39.39441, -120.19252

Weather Sep 22: sunrise 6:49 AM · sunset 6:59 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 0.5 miTurn left, heading SW.
  3. 0.5 miTurn left onto South Prosser Creek Spur, heading SW.
  4. 0.2 miTurn left, heading SW.
  5. 450 ftBear right, heading NE.
  6. 0.4 miTurn left, heading S.
  7. 0.2 miTurn right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading E.
  8. 0.4 miBear left, heading SE.
  9. 250 ftTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading SE.
  10. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
  11. 1 miTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading W.
  12. 0.2 miTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading SE.
  13. 450 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading SE.
  14. 200 ftTurn right onto East Perimeter Trail, heading W.
  15. 400 ftReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
  16. 400 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading W.
  17. 200 ftTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading S.
  18. 400 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading W.
  19. 0.2 miTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading NW.
  20. 1.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
  21. 200 ftBear right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading NE.
  22. 0.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
  23. 0.2 miTurn right, heading N.
  24. 0.4 miBear left, heading NW.
  25. 450 ftTurn right onto South Prosser Creek Spur, heading NW.
  26. 0.2 miTurn right, heading SW.
  27. 0.5 miTurn right, heading N.
  28. 0.3 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

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:49 AMSunset 6:59 PM

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