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Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail is a 14.7-mile out-and-back in Pineforest near Hobart Mills, CA. It climbs 2,166 ft, with sections as steep as 24% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 24/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi5,820 – 6,493 ft · steepest grade: 24%15.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.39387, -120.18937
Nearest town Hobart Mills, CA

Directions

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Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail

14.7 mi · ▲ 2,166 ft · 5 hr 59 min

Elevation 5,820–6,492 ft

Out & Back · Pineforest

Trailhead: 39.39387, -120.18937

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:01 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading NW.
  2. 0.3 miBear left, heading SW.
  3. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SE.
  4. 0.2 miTurn left, heading S.
  5. 0.7 miTurn left onto South Prosser Creek Spur, heading S.
  6. 0.2 miTurn left, heading SW.
  7. 450 ftBear right, heading SW.
  8. 0.4 miTurn left, heading S.
  9. 0.2 miTurn right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading E.
  10. 0.4 miBear left, heading SE.
  11. 250 ftTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading SE.
  12. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
  13. 1 miTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading SW.
  14. 0.2 miTurn right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading S.
  15. 400 ftBear left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading S.
  16. 250 ftBear left onto East Perimeter Trail, heading SE.
  17. 1.9 miBear left, heading S.
  18. 0.6 miTurn right, heading SE.
  19. 50 ftTurn left onto Euer Valley Road, heading SE.
  20. 300 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  21. 300 ftReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
  22. 250 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  23. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  24. 300 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  25. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  26. 0.6 miBear right onto East Perimeter Trail, heading NW.
  27. 1.9 miBear right onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading SW.
  28. 250 ftBear right onto Alder Creek Spur East, heading SW.
  29. 400 ftTurn left onto Tahoe Donner Trail, heading E.
  30. 0.2 miTurn right onto Commemorative Overland Emigrant Trail, heading N.
  31. 1.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
  32. 250 ftBear right onto Prosser Hill Motorcycle Loop, heading NE.
  33. 0.4 miTurn left, heading NW.
  34. 0.2 miTurn right, heading NW.
  35. 0.4 miBear left, heading W.
  36. 450 ftTurn right onto South Prosser Creek Spur, heading N.
  37. 0.2 miTurn right, heading NW.
  38. 0.7 miTurn right, heading N.
  39. 0.2 miTurn left, heading N.
  40. 0.4 miBear right, heading NE.
  41. 0.1 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

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 7:01 PM

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