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Leaving Lake Tahoe this weekend I took the entirety of California State Route 267 north towards Truckee and Donner Pass. CA 267 is a relatively short state highway traversing north from the shore of Lake Tahoe in Placer County 13 miles to I-80/CA 89 located in Truckee in Nevada County.  The entirety of CA 267 is signed on Shore Road.  Heading north from CA 28 there is a small guide sign showing the distance to Truckee and I-80. The southern part of CA 267 is known as the Senator Paul J. Lunardi Memorial Highway.  CA 267 northbound ascends on a steep grade to the 7,179 foot Brockway Summit. CA 267 north from Brockway Summit has a 5 mile downhill grade at 9% to the Truckee River watershed. The Truckee-Tahoe Airport is on CA 267 just south of the Truckee Town limits at Truckee-Tahoe Airport Road. A couple hundred feet north of Truckee-Tahoe Airport Road CA 267 enters Nevada County and the town limits of Truckee. CA 267 northb...

After completing CA 32 east of CA 99 I took CA 89 up to Lassen Volcanic National Park and used it to backtrack to the south to US 50. CA 89 is a 245 mile north/south highway which terminates at I-5 at it's north terminus and US 395 at it's southern terminus.  The route of CA 89 lies completely within the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Ranges making it one of the most scenic highways in California.  CA 89 is bisected by Lassen Volcanic National Park for which the park road acts as a seasonally open implied connection.  My route on CA 89 started at CA 32 in Tehama County but I thought it would be more sensible to photograph it completely southbound from Lassen Volcanic National Park.  Caltrans maintenance ceases at the National Park boundary which has a sign for Lassen Volcanic National Park. Lassen Volcanic National Park is named after Lassen Peak a volcano 10,457 feet above sea level.  Lassen Peak is a lava dome volcano and is the only site of an eruption a...