5/27/2024
Landmark information
- Location:
Hwy 108 (PM 14.5) at Sugar Pine Cutoff, Sugar Pine - Plaque:
Other Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
3/18/2000 - Date Most Recently Visited:
5/27/2024 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 3.672, W 120 11.976
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail
Sonora Pass - Mono Road
Toll gate, fine hotel and stables near this spot 1850's. Jedediah Smith reputed to have been first white man to cross over or near Sonora Pass, 1827. Portion of road built by Tuolumne County Water Co., 1852. Surveyed to Bridgeport, Mono County, 1860. Completed 1864 when six horse team took three weeks for round trip, Sonora to Bridgeport.