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The Independence Trail is located approximately 7 miles from downtown Nevada City within the South Yuba River State Park in the Sierra Nevada foothills within Nevada County, in Northern California. The trail is the former Excelsior Ditch, which was found and repaired by John Olmsted and a large group of local volunteers. It is notable for being ...
Near Feather Peak, 12,360+ ft (3,767 m) [3] [4] Lowest point. Cedar Grove, 5,020 ft (1,530 m) [4] The Sierra High Route (also called the Roper Route and the High Route) is a cross-country hiking route, 195 miles (314 km) long, through the Sierra Nevada. It was scouted by Steve Roper and described by him in his book Sierra High Route: Traversing ...
John D. Olmsted (March 2, 1938 – March 8, 2011) was a California naturalist and conservationist most famous for creating the Independence Trail in Nevada City, California, as well as helping to save numerous other parcels across California, including Jug Handle State Natural Reserve in Casper, California, Goat Mountain in the Berryessa Snow ...
Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-172-7. Wenk, Elizabeth (2014). The John Muir Trail: The essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail (5th ed.). Berkeley: Wilderness Press. ISBN 978-0-89997-736-2. Winnett, Thomas (1970). High Sierra Hiking Guide #4: Tuolumne ...
73000418. Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973 [ 1] Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. [ 2]
Use. Hiking. Highest point. 10,700 feet (3,300 m) [1] Lowest point. 6,700 feet (2,000 m) [1] The High Sierra Trail (HST) is a hiking trail in Sequoia National Park, California. The trail crosses the Sierra Nevada from west to east. According to the Yosemite Decimal System, the HST is a Class 1/Class 2 trail, which means simple scrambling, with ...
Hiking in the Sierra Nevada, (2002) by John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil, ISBN 1-74059-272-7, A Lonely Planet guidebook. Yuba trails 2: A selection of historic hiking trails in the Yuba River and neighboring watersheds (2001), by Hank Meals, ASIN B0006RSO5U. The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails (1999), by R. J. Secor, ISBN 0-89886-625-1.
Tahoe Rim Trail. The Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT) is a 170-mile (274 km) long-distance hiking trail that forms a loop around the Lake Tahoe Basin in the Sierra Nevada and ranges of Nevada and California in the United States. [1] The trail ranges in elevation from 6,223 feet (1,897 m) at the outlet of Lake Tahoe to 10,338 feet (3,151 m) at Relay Peak ...