A gallery of our annual Donner Summit Historical Society posters celebrating different aspects of Donner Summit history.

2015 Poster
2015 Poster
Celebrating intrepid bicyclists who crossed Donner Summit. Thomas Stevens was the first who crossed in 1885 and then went on the cross the continent and go around the world.
  • 2015 Poster
    Celebrating intrepid bicyclists who crossed Donner Summit. Thomas Stevens was the first who crossed in 1885 and then went on the cross the continent and go around the world.
  • 2010 Poster
    Tunnel 6 the longesrt of the 15 Sierra railroad tunnels. It took two years to build as the Chinese progressed only inches a day.
  • 2009 Poster
    Old Highway 40 and the Donner Summit (Rainbow) bridge, the precursors to I-80
  • 2011 Poster
    The major Donner Summit Firsts: first wagons to California, First transcontinental railroad, highway, air route, and telephone line. There were also lots of little firsts.
  • 2012 Poster
    The transcontinental railroad and the Chinese builders. Without them it would be impossible to go on with the work. E.B. Crocker, 1867
  • 2013 Poster
    Native Americans who summered on Donner Summit leaving behind petroglyphs and grinding rocks thousands of years old.
  • 2014 Poster
    The snowsheds of Donner Summit - the iconic symbols that protected 40 miles of transcontinental railroad.