Donner pass Tunnels ghost hunt

On a recent trip to Carson City, Nevada, I couldn’t help but stop and check out Donner Pass. At the Donner Pass Memorial site is a tall monument with a few members of the party on top. Top of the monument is the height of the snow the year the Donner Party stopped before venturing on to California, a very impressive site.

There is a small museum and gift shop as well as a trail that takes you to where one of the campsites was located. A large rock sits quietly showing you where the Murphy cabin was located; the rock was part of the back wall of the cabin.

The two other campsites of the wagon party was the Donner Campsite and the Graves/Reed campsite. A large cross and small plaque next to a school and shopping mall marks the Graves/Reed campsite. The Graves/Reed Campsite was close enough to walk back and forth to the Murphy cabin daily. It took the Donner family a bit longer to communicate with the other families.

The families in the wagon train called the Donner Party were for the most part well off, several brought along servants, and one even had a double-decked wagon. Over the months after leaving Wyoming, the families would go days without water, thus killing many of their oxen and horses. Without the animal power, several families’ ditched their wagons out in the desert and some even rode along with other families. This was not the worst of it. Bad directions lead them into the rugged Truckee Pass. The Donner family’s wagon broke a wheel. Stopping to repair it, they found a thick coating of snow upon waking the next morning as well as the other families who made camp several miles away.