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The Great Wagon Road, also known as the Philadelphia Wagon Road, is a historic trail in the eastern United States that was first traveled by indigenous tribes, and later explorers, settlers, soldiers, and travelers.
The Oregon Central Military Wagon Road was a circuitous 420-mile (680 km) wagon trace designed to capture government land grants rather than link destinations. Today, Oregon Route 58 (also known as the Willamette Pass Highway) follows the first leg of the Oregon Central military road from Eugene over the Cascades to Central Oregon .
Cooke's Wagon Road or Cooke's Road was the first wagon road between the Rio Grande and the Colorado River to San Diego, through the Mexican provinces of Nuevo México, Chihuahua, Sonora and Alta California, established by Philip St. George Cooke and the Mormon Battalion, from October 19, 1846 to January 29, 1847 during the Mexican–American War.
One of Oregon's most unique mountain bike rides follows a route pioneered by Native Americans and turned into a wagon road in the late 1800s and 1900s. ... It was kind of their summer camp area.
Fort Harney was a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon named in honor of Brigadier General William S. Harney.Fort Harney was used as a supply depot and administrative headquarters from 1867 to 1880 during the Army's campaign against Northern Paiute bands in Eastern Oregon and the Bannock uprising in the same area.
In 1857, the Leach Wagon Road had been built to provide a freight road from New Mexico to California, [6] and part of the wagon road ran through the San Pedro valley. [7] Reportedly, Leach suggested the fort be built on the route of his wagon road to provide protection for travelers on the wagon road, as well as area settlers and emigrants. [2]
The Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp is located on the Tuolumne River at an elevation of 7,800 feet (2,400 m), and was one of the original camps established in 1923. However, the camp was relocated in 1927 a small distance upriver, because the original site had a mosquito problem early in the season. The current site is "graced by a superb waterfall ...
Beale Wagon Road Marker in Kingman Beale described the route, "It is the shortest from our western frontier by 300 miles (480 km), being nearly directly west. It is the most level: our wagons only double-teaming once in the entire distance, and that at a short hill, and over a surface heretofore unbroken by wheels or trail on any kind.