Cooks Station

This article is about the current roadside location. For the 18th-century community of Cook's Station, see Russellville, Kentucky.

Cooks station in 2008

California State Route 88; snowstorm on 26 May 2008

Cooks or Cook's Station, elevation 5,000 feet (1,500 m), is a roadside stop on State Route 88 in Amador County in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Built in 1863 as part of the Volcano cutoff of the Carson Emigrant Trail, Cooks Station is one of two remaining "stations" on the highway among many that sprang up after the road was completed over the Carson Pass in the 1860s. The other remaining station is Ham's Station, located 3.3 miles (5.3 km) east at 6,000 feet (1,800 m) elevation.

Both stations are routinely used by the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) to indicate points where snow chains are required for continued travel during snowstorms. Current conditions and requirements are posted at the CALTRANS road information website.^[1]

38°31′36″N 120°26′00″W / 38.526576°N 120.433256°W / 38.526576; -120.433256^[2]

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Cooks station history

Municipalities and communities of Amador County, California, United States

County seat: Jackson

Cities	Amador City Ione Jackson Plymouth Sutter Creek

CDPs	Buckhorn Buena Vista Camanche North Shore Camanche Village Drytown Fiddletown Kirkwood‡ Martell Pine Grove Pioneer Red Corral River Pines Volcano

Unincorporated communities	Allen Barton Bonnefoy Bunker Hill Carbondale Clarsona Clinton Dagon Edwin Electra Enterprise Firebrick Kit Carson New Chicago Pine Acres Plasse Ranch House Estates Scottsville Sunnybrook Sutter Hill

Ghost towns	Amador Crossing Arkansas Ferry Armstrong's Mill Butte City Camp O'pera Camp Union Cape Cod Bar Chaparral Hill China City Chinatown Copper Hill Defender Dew Drop Figtree Forest Home Fort Ann Fort John French Camp Hardenburg Herbertville Irishtown Lancha Plana Lignite Lower Rancheria Mahala Flat May Middle Bar Milligan District Old Rancheria Pokerville Pomegranate Ranlett Ritchey Secreta Snake Flat Tragedy Spring Union Flat Watkins Bar Wieland Yeomet Yusumne

Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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