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 ...

“Expect to find the worst desert you ever saw and then find it worse than you expected.” — John Wood, 1850 Diary From the late 1840s to the late 1860s, travelers on the Emigrant Trail through Nevada, ...

If walls could talk then historic Rainbow Lodge would have plenty to tell. Located off Interstate 80, the rustic lodge stands on a part of the old Emigrant Trail which once served as a campground for ...

Continuing from last week's pick, we pick up this week with Emigrant Trail, a trail just inside the Hagerman Fossil Beds which allows hikers to get up close and personal with both fossil lookouts and ...

“Today we have been toiling through the deep dust, as uncomfortable for us all as a person who has never traveled this route can ever imagine.” — Harriet S. Ward, 1853 Travelers on the Emigrant Trail, ...

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.