Friday's Station-Overland Pony Express Route in California

California registered a landmark here and never put a plaque on it. What stands is private: a bronze Pony Express rider and a stone Harrah's dedicated on April 4, 1963, a few hundred feet inside Nevada. Two independent registers agree there is no state plaque on the California side. The riders crossed the line at this point on their way to Friday's, which the plaque places four-tenths of a mile northeast at Edgewood and the state's own text puts three-quarters of a mile east.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cave Rock / De'ek Wadapush — 5.9 mi
  One of the most sacred places of the Wašiw—the Standing Gray Rock, a worn volcano the highway was blasted through and climbers bolted for sport, now closed and quiet again after the Washoe's long fight to protect it
• Genoa — 6.1 mi
  Nevada's oldest town—a California Trail trading post and Carson Valley ranch country that came eight years before the silver and quietly outlasted it
• Emerald Bay State Park — 7.6 mi
  A glacial fjord on Tahoe's west shore with the lake's only island and a Scandinavian house at the water.
• Glenbrook & Spooner Summit — 8.6 mi
  Lake Tahoe's east shore, where the basin was logged nearly clean to timber the Comstock—the forest that paid for the silver, and the century it has spent growing back

More markers nearby

• Carson Valley — 3.8 mi
• De Ek Wadapush - Cave Rock — 5.7 mi
• Kingsbury Grade — 5.7 mi
• Mottsville — 6.1 mi