Editing Walker Pass (section)

==History==
Walker Pass was charted as a route through the Sierra in 1834 by [[Joseph R. Walker|Joseph Rutherford Walker]], a member of the [[Benjamin Bonneville|Bonneville Expedition]] who learned of it from [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. Walker returned through the pass in 1843, leading an [[Joseph B. Chiles|immigrant wagon train]] into California. In 1845 the military surveying expedition of [[John C. Fremont]] used the pass.  He suggested it be named after Walker.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | last =  Rudo | first = Mark O.  | title = Walker Pass | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | publisher = [[National Park Service]] | date = September 26, 1989 | url = {{NHLS url|id=66000210}} | format = pdf | access-date = 25 May 2012}}</ref><ref name = nrhpphotos>{{Cite web | title = Walker Pass  | work = Photographs | publisher = [[National Park Service]]
| url = {{NHLS url|id=66000210|photos=y}} | format = pdf | access-date = 25 May 2012}}</ref>

Walker Pass was used in 1861 by   cattlemen from the [[San Joaquin Valley]] and the [[Tejon Pass|Tejon]] region of the Tehachapi mountains to drive cattle to the silver boomtown of Aurora near [[Mono Lake]].<ref name=mcgrath>{{cite book | title=Gunfighter, Highwaymen & Vigilantes|author=Roger McGrath|publisher=University of California Press|date=1984|page=17}}</ref>

The Walker Pass Lodge was built nearby in the 1930s and was a well-known rest stop before burning down around 1990.

Aside from the paved road, the pass is essentially unaltered since Walker mapped it in 1834.<ref name = nrhpinv/>