Nevada State Route 88 is a 7.868-mile corridor located in Carson Valley of Douglas County. Nevada State Route 88 is part of the Carson Pass Highway and a continuation of California State Route 88. Carson Pass was a known crossing of the Sierra Nevada by the Washoe and was surveyed in an 1844 expedition led by John C. Fremont. The Carson Pass Highway was plotted as a wagon road by the Mormon Battalion in 1848 and was once the primary crossing of the Sierra Nevada. The Nevada portion of Carson Pass Highway was originally known as Woodfords Road and was part of Forest Route 4. After Woodfords Road was improved via Federal funds in 1934 it became part of Nevada State Route 37. The corridor came to be known as part of the Carson Pass Highway and was renumbered to Nevada State Route 88 in 1956 to provide continuity with California State Route 88. Nevada State Route 88 is one of only three highways which still carries a pre-1976 Nevada State Highway nu...
Clinton Road is an approximately 9-mile rural highway located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Amador County. As presently configured Clinton Road begins at California State Route 49 in Jackson and extends east to California State Route 88 near Pine Grove. Clinton Road was developed in 1849 as the primary stage route between Jackson and Volcano. The corridor is named after the mining supply town of Clinton which was located on South Fork Jackson Creek. Clinton Road would become a public highway in 1854 after Amador County was created. For several decades the corridor of Clinton Road would serve as the primary highway east of Jackson towards Volcano and Carson Pass. The modern terminus points of the Clinton Road corridor would develop in the 1940s to better align with the then modernizing State Highways. Part 1; the history of Clinton Road Clinton Road is named after the Gold Rush era mining community of Clinton. Clinton Road was developed...