The Emigrant Trail

Historical marker location:

11725 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, California

( Marker is on Donner Pass Road near Northwoods Boulevard, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1929

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.