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The Donner Party (2496 words) |
 | The Donner Party was the most famous tragedy in the history of the westward migration. |
| View maps of the Donner Party's route (the Hastings Cut-off), the camps at Alder Creek and Donner Lake, and the route of the Snowshoe Party. |
| Thanks to the efforts of the Historic Donner Trail Committee a portion of the California Trail from Donner Lake to the Summit won't be abandoned as a public road. |
| Donner State Memorial Park (1305 words) |
| Also, located at Donner Memorial State Park is a campground of 150 sites and a day-use area along the lake with picnic tables, restrooms, a beach, fishing, and a lakeside interpretive trail that has 18 panels which discuss the nature and cultural diversity of the area. |
| Donner Memorial State Park is at the east end of the lake. |
| Donner Memorial State Park is now located where many of the emigrants spent their last days, and the site of one of the emigrant cabins is now marked by a massive monument to the western pioneers; its base is 22 feet high, the same height as the snow in that terrible winter of 1846-47. |
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