Utah Crossroads Chapter of the OR/CA Trails Association constructed a great information kiosk at the spring. Unfortunately, visitors from Nevada may find it difficult to locate the site. Our hiking team, trekking the Hastings Cutoff from Donner Spring to Huntington Creek/Smith Creek junction, found no person who knew about this historic site. Neither public land employees nor local ranchers knew. Our team searched the area on foot with packs, depending on the springs for our water source as the pioneers did. Unknowingly, we came within a mile of our goal but had to move on west, along the trail to walk the rest of the HCO. In September I drove to the area and found the spring on the TL Bar J Ranch. No road signs show the spring's location.

Hastings Cutoff
Donner Spring
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