Hope Valley (California)

[1] The valley served as a major thoroughfare for the passage of settlers and emigrants to and from California during the Gold Rush era.

About a mile and a half east of the turn, just before reaching Sorensen's Resort, the wide valley abruptly narrows, and a steep V-shaped canyon carries the river further downstream toward the Nevada deserts.

State Route 89 enters the valley through Luther Pass to the north, and intersects SR 88 at Pickett's Junction.

Burnside Lake is a SNOTEL weather station situated above Hope Valley, on the southern flank of Hawkins Peak, at an elevation of 9100 feet (2774 m).

Every winter, a group of Northern Washoes would travel through the valley by snowshoe along a trail they called Pewećeli Yeweš.

The soldiers were in poor spirits after three of their men had been killed in an incident about a month before at Tragedy Spring, across Carson Pass to the west.

During California's Gold Rush era, Hope Valley served as a crucial transportation conduit across the Sierra Nevada.

Green meadows and blue skies in the upper reaches of Hope Valley along Blue Lakes Road.
A map of the Carson River basin. Hope Valley is situated along the California portion of its west fork , where the river makes a sharp eastward turn after initially flowing north.
Alpine County map