Route between Sacramento and Bridgeport CA
I plan to drive from the Sacramento area over the Sierra Nevada mountains to Bridgeport CA on Highway 395 (and return). I will be towing a 9,000 lb. (loaded) toy-hauler travel trailer. Can anyone r...
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89/88 is just as good of a road as the two-lane section of 50. In fact I don't even recall any steep grades on the 89/88 section from Tahoe over to 395. You can save even more miles by taking 89 when it separates from 88 and go through Markleeville, but that is a mountain pass road with steep grades and switch backs. If you don't turn there 88 continues on down into the Carson Valley and you can pick up one of the cross roads and hop over to 395.
Maybe I'm different than most people. I have a 35 foot DP with toad and the only roads I avoid in the mountains are 4 and 108 over their summits. Other than those there are no other State numbered highways that I would not take, or have not taken. I'm further south in the central valley than you and if I were going to Bridgeport I'd take Tioga and go through Yosemite unless I was traveling on a weekend. Then I'd go pick up 88 at Stockton and take it all the way over and that's just to avoid Yosemite traffic.
Maybe I'm different than most people. I have a 35 foot DP with toad and the only roads I avoid in the mountains are 4 and 108 over their summits. Other than those there are no other State numbered highways that I would not take, or have not taken. I'm further south in the central valley than you and if I were going to Bridgeport I'd take Tioga and go through Yosemite unless I was traveling on a weekend. Then I'd go pick up 88 at Stockton and take it all the way over and that's just to avoid Yosemite traffic.
