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38°49′29″N 120°02′12″W / 38.82472°N 120.03667°W / 38.82472; -120.03667

Little Norway is a populated place in El Dorado County, California.[1] It is located 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Meyers,[2] at an elevation of 2233m (7326 feet).[1] The ZIP code is 95721.

History

A post office was established at Little Norway in 1961.[2] The building was damaged by fire in 1967.[3] Two other fires broke out, a 1988 arson and a 1991 fire which caused $200,000 in damage to the Little Norway resort.[4]

Transport

Little Norway is situated on US Route 50 and was a Greyhound stop for cross country skiers.[5]

Little Norway is also an endpoint of the Little Norway to Lower Echo Lake Trail[6] managed by the United States Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

Botany

A specimen of bullthistle or bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare), an invasive species native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa, was collected near here in or before 1984.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Norway, California
  2. ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 522. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  3. ^ "Blaze guts Resort Units in El Dorado". April 25, 1967.
  4. ^ "Midnight fire ravages Little Norway resort". April 11, 1991.
  5. ^ "Many a slip between the bus and the lift, Phantom skier finds". February 1, 1982.
  6. ^ "Little Norway to Lower Echo Lake". AllTrails.com. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  7. ^ Barron, Robin; Holst, Erik M. (March 2000). "Bullthistle (Cirsium vulgare)". Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment (PDF). Vol. II. United States Forest Service. pp. O-7, O-8.


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