Pioneers: In the 1970s, the Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee installed three markers in Reno. Now another group, Trails West, says they're in the wrong spots.

Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail Museum is ranked #4 out of 21 things to do in Lake Tahoe. See pictures and our review of Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail Museum.

The Black Rock Desert's foreboding climate has been a natural barrier for millennia. Imagine such a vast desert with 175 miles of emigrant trails leading toward Oregon and the California gold fields.

Travelers on the Emigrant Trail, which stretched across Northern Nevada, would have been elated to come upon the Rye Patch Reservoir. More than 80 years before the Rye Patch Reservoir was built, ...

Throughout the Carson Pass and Emigrant Trail areas south of Lake Tahoe are some of the most vivid stretches of high country quaking aspen in all of California. According to Alpine County ...

The Emigrant Trail Conservancy is looking for anyone who has ridden horseback, driven wagons or walked the Emigrant Trail from Highway 49 to Dog Bar Road, or through south Nevada County, anytime from ...

Throughout the Carson Pass and Emigrant Trail areas south of Lake Tahoe are some of the most vivid stretches of high country quaking aspen in all of the Sierra. Driving to see nature’s fireworks ...

"The Emigrant Trail comes from basically the Missouri River and it's about 2,000 miles long," Holmes said. Johnson's Ranch is the terminus of the Emigrant Trail.

WHEATLAND, California (KOVR) — The historical society in Wheatland is making a push to preserve a little-known wagon trail that marked the end of the Donner Party. California’s early history ...