10 feet deep — Donner Pass, Interstate 80 and the Golden State are bracing for impact as a winter storm threatens to blanket the Sierra Nevada range with 10 feet of snow. NBC news reports, “[Donner Pass] could experience snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches ...

“While the scenery is beautiful, Donner Pass will eat you alive,” said Louis Pilloni, the fella wearing the GoPro for this POV footage. Watch as Pilloni and three other downhill skateboarders race down the mountain, dubbed Donner Pass for the ...

RENO — It’s ironic so many American success stories happened at a spot named for one of history’s iconic failures. But that’s how it is with the Donner Pass near Truckee, Calif. The first wagon train to successfully cross the Sierra Nevada squeezed ...

DONNER PASS (KOLO) - Update at 2:35 p.m.: I-80 is now open in both directions over Donner Summit with chain restrictions. CHP Truckee says big rigs are currently being turned around at the Nevada State Line and at Applegate. Original Article: I-80 over ...

What you’ll see: A 10-mile cut-off from Interstate 80 near Donner Pass to Truckee is your winter portal. On Donner Pass Road, the historic U.S. 40, you cross the true Donner Summit and get a spectacular view to the east of Donner Lake and the High Sierra.

You guys have heard of Donner Pass, right? The dreaded mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevadas out in California where an ill-fated group of mid-19th century pioneers got lost and fell to cannibalism to survive? Of course you have. Well, it seems that ...

TRUCKEE, Calif. -- It's ironic so many American success stories happened at a spot named for one of history's iconic failures. But that's how it is with the Donner Pass near Truckee, Calif. The first wagon train to successfully cross the Sierra Nevada ...

The Donner Party was heading from Illinois to California in 1846. Sadly, the group arrived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains too late to pass through and was stranded in the heavy winter of 1846 to 1847.