Noble Emigrant Trail

The road was bought. In the spring of 1852 William Nobles offered the merchants of Shasta City a route that would bring the wagon trains to their town, for $2,000, returned if they did not like it; they paid, and it passed this rise on its way. He had found it looking for something else. The bronze's last sentence gives it away: in October 1850 Peter Lassen and J. G. Bruff saw Honey Lake from here while hunting Gold Lake, a lake said to be lined with gold that nobody ever found.

What the plaque says

Noble Emigrant Trail This route was first used in 1852 by emigrants to Northern California seeking to avoid the hardships of the Lassen Trail. It crossed the desert from the Humboldt River in Nevada, passed this point, and proceeded over the mountains to the town of Shasta. Later, 1859-1861, it was known as the Ft. Kearny, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road. From this point Peter Lassen and J. G. Bruff on October 4, 1850, saw Honey Lake while on an expedition hunting for Gold Lake. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 677 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with the Lassen County Historical Society, August 15, 1959. Base built and plaque remounted by Neversweats Chapter No. 1863 E Clampus Vitus May 4 1985

Where it stands

More markers nearby

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