Upper Soda Springs

Upper Soda Springs in Dunsmuir, California, is a Sacramento River site whose history spans Native use, overland travel, and later recreation. The Okwanuchu used it seasonally during salmon fishing because it offered the river’s widest and shallowest crossing. In the 1820s through 1850s, trappers, cattle drovers, explorers, prospectors, and packers passed through or stopped there, and a hostel, toll bridge, inn, and springhouse made it an important stop on the route that became a major stagecoach road to Oregon. After the railroad arrived in 1886, the area became a Victorian resort, later declined, and has since been partly restored as public parkland and riparian habitat.

Dunsmuir, California · United States