Few use the trail

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Q1: What stopped more people using the trail?

[Answer]

As people heard about the experience of the Donner Party, few wagons used the trail afterwards.

However, it became used again after the 1848 Gold Rush because it led directly towards the goldfields.

Even today, the modern road has to switchback over the pass, and close to the memorial of the Donner Party.