Yes, Donner Memorial State Park has an interesting past (most of us know the story of the Donner Party) making its mark in the big migration of settlers coming out west to build a better life, their ...

Perched in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Truckee is a gateway community in the Lake Tahoe region, conveniently located along ...

The administrative offices of the Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center are surprisingly wacky. An inside joke hangs above the communal microwave, and State Park interpreter Nikki Combs giggled as ...

TRUCKEE — In California history class, I daydreamed through the missions, and the Big Four were a bore — but I perked right up when we got to the Donner Party. “It’s the cannibalism,” said Donner ...