Mormon Emigrant Trail is an approximately 24.5-mile portion of the original routing of the Carson Pass Highway in Eldorado National Forest. Mormon Emigrant Trail begins at California State Route 88 near Alder Hill and extends westward to Eldorado County Route J16 at Sly Park Road. Carson Pass was a known crossing of the Sierra Nevada by the Washoe and was surveyed in an 1844 expedition led by John C. Fremont. The Carson Pass Highway was plotted as a wagon road by the Mormon Battalion in 1848 and was once the primary crossing of the Sierra Nevada. By the 1880s the Carson Pass Highway had several spurs with the primary traffic corridor being rerouted to Jackson. The original routing towards Placerville would come to be known as Morman Emigrant Trail and became part of Eldorado National Forest in 1910. Morman Emigrant Trail is part of Forest Road 10N50 and Eldorado National Forest Route 5. Despite being a seasonally maintained roadway corrido...
Nevada State Route 88 is a 7.868-mile corridor located in Carson Valley of Douglas County. Nevada State Route 88 is part of the Carson Pass Highway and a continuation of California State Route 88. Carson Pass was a known crossing of the Sierra Nevada by the Washoe and was surveyed in an 1844 expedition led by John C. Fremont. The Carson Pass Highway was plotted as a wagon road by the Mormon Battalion in 1848 and was once the primary crossing of the Sierra Nevada. The Nevada portion of Carson Pass Highway was originally known as Woodfords Road and was part of Forest Route 4. After Woodfords Road was improved via Federal funds in 1934 it became part of Nevada State Route 37. The corridor came to be known as part of the Carson Pass Highway and was renumbered to Nevada State Route 88 in 1956 to provide continuity with California State Route 88. Nevada State Route 88 is one of only three highways which still carries a pre-1976 Nevada State Highway nu...