Then and now: Meyers Grade — dirt to asphalt

Old Meyers Grade in the early 1900s. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

Even in the early 1900s old and new intersected. The above photo shows a horse-drawn carriage and a horseless carriage meeting on the Old Meyers Grade while crossing Echo Summit. This was years before the current Highway 50 Echo Summit route was built in the 1930s.

Meyers Grade as it looks today. Photo/Bill Kingman

Now paved, the Old Meyers Grade still exists. It is mapped as Johnson Pass Road just uphill behind the camera where it traverses the summit.

— Bill Kingman