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The Siskiyou Trail stretched from California's Central Valley to the Columbia River in Washington State; modern-day Interstate 5 follows this pioneer path. Originally based on existing Native American foot trails winding their way through river valleys, the Siskiyou Trail provided the shortest practical travel path between early settlements in ...
The Illinois River Trail, known on maps as National Trail No. 1161, [1] is a hiking trail located in the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon, United States. The 27-mile (43 km) trail provides access to the Kalmiopsis Wilderness in the Klamath Mountains .
Since much of the trail lies in the flood plain along the Des Plaines River, sections of the trail are occasionally closed due to flooding during periods of heavy rain. Though not all sections of the trail connect directly, there is a section more than 31 miles (50 km) long running through Lake County starting at Russell Road along the ...
The Kittanning Path was a major east-west Native American trail that crossed the Allegheny Mountains barrier ridge connecting the Susquehanna River valleys in the center of Pennsylvania to the highlands of the Appalachian Plateau and thence to the western lands beyond drained by the Ohio River.
The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River in eastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. [2] It flows generally southwardly for 419 mi (674 km), [3] and its watershed is 9,006 sq mi (23,330 km 2). [1] The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Big Sioux River" as the stream's name in 1931. [4]
Spencer Spit State Park is a public recreation area ran under the Washington State Parks. It covers one hundred and thirty-eight acres (56 ha) (a total of 7,840 feet of shoreline) on the eastern shore of Lopez Island in San Juan County, Washington.
The Sauk Trail was originally a Native American trail running through what are present-day Illinois, Indiana and Michigan in the United States. From west to east, the trail ran from Rock Island on the Mississippi River to the Illinois River near modern Peru then along the north bank of that river to Joliet , and on to Valparaiso, Indiana .
The park has beach, low dunes, and 8,316 feet (2,535 m) of ocean shoreline plus 9,950 feet (3,030 m) of freshwater river shoreline along both the Copalis River and the adjacent Connor Creek. The park includes the Copalis Spit, a small peninsula that serves as refuge for migratory birds.