Images of America: Truckee Donate Dozens of side trips and

Dozens of side trips and historical highlights

Modoc Plateau

the Sierra Nevada is one of the premier wildflower destinations in California

and early anthropology of this major mountain range

Images of America: Truckee Donate Dozens of side trips andAt 5,980 feet, Truckee enchants visitors with a quaintness that belies the mountain town's rugged past. The very environment in which Truckee exists high elevation, cold, deep snows forced its founding fathers, residents, immigrants, and transient workers to make tough decisions while attempting to keep peace in a wildly remote area. In just over 150 years, Truckee has morphed from a collection of lawless rough and tumble settlements to a close knit