Highway 40 Scenic Bypass, Forest Gift Shop and Ruins, Cisco Grove, CA. Ski Mecca! Auburn Ski Club.
Before the coming of I-80 all traffic crossing Donner Summit came right through here. Cisco Grove was an active little community oriented to highway travelers. If you look closely here you will see the ruins of foundations of the various commercial establishments that included a gift ship, lodge, restaurant, grocery store, gas station, housekeeping cabins, bar, and ski club.
Just a few hundred yards up the road was the Auburn Ski Club with its rope tows, ski runs, ski jumps and lodging. The Auburn Ski Club pioneered and helped popularize modern skiing and was responsible for opening Highway 40 to winter travel. Later I-80 went right through the club's ski runs and ski jumps and the club moved up to the Summit where it owns the land where Boreal is.
The interesting stone buildings are the remains of the Forest Gift Shop which supplied tourists with locally produced souvenirs. Best sellers were owl ashtrays made from pinecones and pine rounds and corncob/pinecone pipes. Next door, the fruit stand sold ice-cold orange juice, fruit, and orange candies.
The gift shop was built in 1938
The Forest Gift shop venture lasted for ten years until WW II and a decrease in traffic reduced business. After the war the shop reopened as the Sierra Gift Shop which lasted until the arrival of the Freeway.
The coming of I-80 changed Old Highway 40. Leisure rides along the two-lane highway were a thing of the past. Better cars zipped along the new highway at high speeds and tourists no longer wanted to stop before reaching their destinations. The many small stores, cafés, lodges, service stations, and motels, disappeared and a way of life ended.
James Gould originally bought the Cisco Grove land from the Central Pacific Railroad. The land then became the start of a 22 mile flume and ditch of the Gold Run Ditch and Mining company. The water ran all the way to Gold Run to be used for hydraulic mining. In 2008 the Gould Family donated the building and park to Placer County.
Location.
39° 18.687′ N, 120° 32.547′ W. Marker is near Emigrant Gap, California, in Placer County. Marker is on Hampshire Rocks Road near Cisco Road, on the left when traveling east. Marker is near this postal address: 48667 Luken Wy, Emigrant Gap, CA 95715
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Susan's Spot (within shouting distance of this marker); Lincoln Highway (approx. 1.1 miles away); Truckee Trail - Ascent to Lake and Valley (approx. 1.3 miles away); Big Bend (approx. 1.4 miles away); Red Mountain (approx. 1.4 miles away); Overland Emigrant Trail (approx. 1.4 miles away); Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party (approx. 1.4 miles away); a different marker also named The Lincoln Highway (approx. 1.4 miles away).
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