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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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading E.
  2. 450 ftBear right, heading SE.
  3. 450 ftBear right, heading S.
  4. 500 ftBear left onto East Perimeter Trail, heading SE.
  5. 1.9 miBear right onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading N.
  6. 200 ftTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading NW.
  7. 450 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading E.
  8. 0.2 miTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading N.
  9. 1.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
  10. 250 ftBear right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading NE.
  11. 1.1 miReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
  12. 1.1 miBear left, heading S.
  13. 250 ftTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading SE.
  14. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
  15. 1 miTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading W.
  16. 0.2 miTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading SW.
  17. 450 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading S.
  18. 200 ftBear left onto East Perimeter Trail, heading SE.
  19. 1.9 miBear right, heading S.
  20. 450 ftBear left, heading S.
  21. 450 ftBear left, heading S.
  22. 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

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