Old HWY 88: Heavenly Ridge Traditional Cache
4JCSeek&Find: Since 2 DNF's and not the best spot, I will disable this cache. Thank you everyone who looked for this one and those who found it.
Old HWY 88: Heavenly Ridge
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State Route 88 is a California State Highway that travels in an east-west direction, from Stockton through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and ending at the border with Nevada, whereupon it becomes Nevada State Route 88, eventually terminating at U.S. Highway 395. CA-88 is one of only three routes to continue with the same route number after crossing into Nevada, the others being CA-28 and CA-266.
Unlike other two-lane California highways through the mountains (CA-4, CA-108 and CA-120), CA-88 stays open through winter, except during the worst snowstorms, making it the third major route through the mountains, after Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 50. In fact, CA-88 over the Carson Pass is designated as Alternate U.S. 50, such that it may be used during floods of the American River Canyon.
A portion of CA-88 (from Antelope Springs to the border) started as the Amador/Nevada Wagon Route, a toll road completed in 1862, which was a major thoroughfare through the mountains, as California sent timber, food, and particularly gold to the east during the Civil War. Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 greatly decreased traffic on the wagon road.
This Cache is located on just one part of HWY 88 that has been changed to make traffic flow.
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