Monitor Pass
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Monitor Pass is a high mountain pass in California in the Sierra Nevada southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is traversed by State Route 89 near that highway's southern terminus at U.S. Route 395 near the comm
The view from a 9,000 foot peak, just south of Monitor Pass
Topaz Lake
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Topaz Lake is a reservoir located on the California-Nevada border, about 75 miles south of Reno. The census-designated place of Topaz Lake, Nevada, is located along its northwest shore.
Monitor Pass
…journey, the first crossing ever of the Sierra Nevada by a non-native. Smith first came down from Ebbetts Pass, then continued from Monitor Pass past Topaz Lake into Nevada. The highway through the pass was completed in the early 1950s, making it one of the most recent Sierra Nevada passes to be opened by a…
from the Nevada side