Our next leg stretching stop was at the Donner Memorial State park near Truckee, California shortly before the California-Nevada border. There was a small indoor museum that had things that the Donner party most likely had with them.
It was a really small museum, only one room, so it didn’t take us very long to see it all. There was also a video that they were going to show, but we didn’t have time to stay and watch it. So we went outside to check out the monument.
The height of the monument represents the height of the snow that the Donner party got stuck in. Totally crazy to be stuck in that much snow with no shelter of any kind. I would have loved to spend more time here, but we really had to be on our way as Kyle has to go back to work tomorrow, and we did NOT want to be driving all night long. We will have to visit this place some other time and explore it further. 🙂