Historic Sites and Points of Interest in Modoc County
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The marker is just uphill from the Modoc
National Forest sign. Our pickup truck
is parked in a pull-off across the road.
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The Warner Mountains are in the foreground. The mountains in the background are in Nevada at the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province. The Applegate Trail passes through Black Rock Desert where Burning Man encamps each September to the Applegate Trail origin near Rabbithole Springs, Nevada, where the the Lassen-Applegate Cutoff branched north from the California Trail.
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Fandango Pass Ascent
Fandango Pass Road
The marker reads:
Applegate Trail - Fandango Pass Ascent"We arrived at the foot of the summit ridge, the top of which lay one mile distant ... Up we ascended, slowly but surely, by the toilsome climbing of the teams and by lifting of the members. ... at the wheels." - William Swain, Oct 11, 1849