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- Henness_Pass abstract "Henness Pass, elevation 6,916 ft (2,108 m), is a mountain pass northwest of Reno on the crest of the Sierra Nevada range in Sierra County, California. The pass is traversed by Henness Pass Road, a mostly unpaved road not generally passable by automobiles in winter. Portions of the road are recommended for high clearance vehicles only.Like most of the well-known Sierra Nevada passes, it lies on the Great Basin Divide. Here, the Middle Yuba River flows west to the Pacific Ocean, and the Little Truckee River flows east into the Great Basin.Historically, Henness Pass Road was a travel route used by Native Americans and then immigrants and local mining communities during the Gold Rush era. Beginning in the late 1850s, the road was a major supply route for the silver and gold mines in Nevada. Freight was brought by steamboat from San Francisco up the Sacramento River to Marysville. From there it was carried by wagons, with part of the route being via the Bridgeport Covered Bridge and the Virginia Turnpike, which connected to the road to Henness Pass at North San Juan.Henness Pass is named for Patrick Henness, who is credited with developing the route in 1849 or 1850 as an alternative to Donner Pass. In 1855 the road was officially surveyed by D.B. Scott when the California Legislature passed An Act to Construct a Wagon Road over the Sierra Nevada range, but a route through El Dorado County approximating the current path of U.S. Route 50 was ultimately chosen.The Henness Pass route was eclipsed by completion in 1868 of the First Transcontinental Railroad as far as Reno via Donner Pass. Henness Pass and its namesake road still provide the only crossing of any significance between Yuba Pass (State Route 49) to the north and Donner Summit (Interstate 80) to the south.".
- Henness_Pass location California.
- Henness_Pass location Sierra_County,_California.
- Henness_Pass name "Henness Pass".
- Henness_Pass wikiPageExternalLink Nevada_Survey_Maps.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageExternalLink trails-Henness.html.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageExternalLink Virginia%20Turnpike%20combined.pdf.
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- Henness_Pass wikiPageLength "3378".
- Henness_Pass wikiPageOutDegree "24".
- Henness_Pass wikiPageRevisionID "628017003".
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Bridgeport_Covered_Bridge.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink California_Gold_Rush.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink California_State_Route_49.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink California_Trail.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Sierra_County,_California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mountain_passes_of_California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mountain_passes_of_the_Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Donner_Pass.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink First_Transcontinental_Railroad.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Great_Basin_Divide.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_80_in_California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Little_Truckee_River.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Yuba_River.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink North_San_Juan,_California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Reno.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Reno,_Nevada.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_County,_California.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Route_50.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Yuba_Pass,_California_(landform).
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLink Yuba_River.
- Henness_Pass wikiPageWikiLinkText "Henness Pass".
- Henness_Pass elevationFt "6916".
- Henness_Pass hasPhotoCollection Henness_Pass.
- Henness_Pass location California.
- Henness_Pass location Sierra_County,_California.
- Henness_Pass name "Henness Pass".
- Henness_Pass range Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Henness_Pass topo "USGS Sattley".
- Henness_Pass traversed California_Trail.
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- Henness_Pass wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:SierraCountyCA-geo-stub.
- Henness_Pass subject Category:Landforms_of_Sierra_County,_California.
- Henness_Pass subject Category:Mountain_passes_of_California.
- Henness_Pass subject Category:Mountain_passes_of_the_Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Henness_Pass hypernym Pass.
- Henness_Pass point "39.50277777777778 -120.43944444444445".
- Henness_Pass type MountainPass.
- Henness_Pass type NaturalPlace.
- Henness_Pass type Place.
- Henness_Pass type Location.
- Henness_Pass type Place.
- Henness_Pass type Thing.
- Henness_Pass type SpatialThing.
- Henness_Pass type Q133056.
- Henness_Pass comment "Henness Pass, elevation 6,916 ft (2,108 m), is a mountain pass northwest of Reno on the crest of the Sierra Nevada range in Sierra County, California. The pass is traversed by Henness Pass Road, a mostly unpaved road not generally passable by automobiles in winter. Portions of the road are recommended for high clearance vehicles only.Like most of the well-known Sierra Nevada passes, it lies on the Great Basin Divide.".
- Henness_Pass label "Henness Pass".
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- Henness_Pass lat "39.50277777777778".
- Henness_Pass long "-120.43944444444445".
- Henness_Pass wasDerivedFrom Henness_Pass?oldid=628017003.
- Henness_Pass isPrimaryTopicOf Henness_Pass.