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There are many historic trails and roads in the United States which were important to the settlement and development of the United States including those used by American Indians. The lists below include only those routes in use prior to the creation of the American Highway System in 1926.
Notably, in about 2000 BC, the Minoans built a 50 km (31-mile) paved road from Knossos in north Crete through the mountains to Gortyn and Lebena, a port on the south coast of the island, which had side drains, a 200 mm (8-inch) thick pavement of sandstone blocks bound with clay-gypsum mortar, covered by a layer of basaltic flagstones and had ...
The King's Highway was a roughly 1,300-mile (2,100 km) road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies. It was built on the order of Charles II of England, who directed his colonial governors to link Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Many of the oldest roadside attractions still can be visited today. When travel by car became more affordable for many Americans in the 1920s and 30s, road trips were invented!
Roads on the National Register of Historic Places (2 C, 9 P) Historic trails and roads in Washington, D.C. (1 C) National Historic Trails of the United States (6 C, 23 P, 1 F)
Old Mine Road is a road in New Jersey and New York said to be one of the oldest continuously used roads in the United States of America. At a length of 104 miles (167 km), it stretches from the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to the vicinity of Kingston , New York .
Parts of Old Mine Road, the main north-south route in the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, will be closed starting this spring. One of America's oldest roads will get $11 million rebuild in ...
The road was built in the early 20th century—long before the United States Numbered Highway System was established. In 1926, its 1,687 miles (2,715 km) of pavement made it the longest continuous stretch of paved road in the world at the time. [2]