The original Heness Pass road was primarily a road for
an easier entrance into California. After the Donner Party
disaster of 1846, emigrants avoided the rugged cliffs above Truckee (later
Donner) Lake. Instead they turned
northward taking a longer route developed by Patrick Henness (or Hanness) in
either 1849 or 1850
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