The Applegate-Lassen trail is located in the Northwestern part
of Nevada and the Northeastern part of California. Listed below are
Karen's links to great websites describing the trail...Renie
It's 1847 you're traveling west in a wagon train, your average speed is
1.5-mph. After months on the trail you arrive at Lassen Meadows. You find a
painted barrel on the side of the trail, full of notes and mail from other
travelers. You dig in and start reading, you find out that in 1846 the
Donner Party had been stranded in the mountain snows with a great loss of
life. You rest for the night, the next morning your wagon train has to make
a choice, follow the California (later the Donner Route) Route into the
Sierra's, take the Carson Trail south-west across the 40-Mile Desert, or
swing you wagons north-west via the Applegate-Lassen Trail (later to become
known as the "Death Route").
