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Site of the end times for the ill-fated California bound pioneer party of 1846 that resorted to cannibalism after becoming snowbound. You can camp here yourself, in 154 sites with picnic tables. Do bring food, but store it in provided lockers to protect from bears.
Donner Memorial State Park is a California State Park, located at the town of Truckee, California, United States. The park preserves a portion of the Donner Camp site, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped just short of Donner Pass by weather during the winter of 1846–1847. Caught without shelter or adequate supplies, members of the group resorted to cannibalism to survive. The camp site, high in the Sierra Nevada, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
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