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The Old Spanish Trail (Spanish: Viejo Sendero Español) is a historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements of (or near) Santa Fe, New Mexico with those of Los Angeles, California and southern California. Approximately 700 mi (1,100 km) long, the trail ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons.
Old Spanish Trail – Mormon Road Historic District: Old Spanish Trail – Mormon Road Historic District: August 22, 2001 : From the California border to Arizona across southern Nevada, through Las Vegas; also specifically near the junction of Interstate 15 and State Route 169
The Old Spanish Trail (1829-1850) Clark ... Nevada Historical Marker No. 35, Las Vegas Old Mormon Fort Nevada's oldest building [7] 36: Moapa Valley: Clark [7] 37:
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
The first non-Native American crossing Las Vegas Springs was Raphael Rivera in 1829. He was the Mexican scout for the expedition of Antonio Armijo who pioneered the Old Spanish Trail between New Mexico and California. [7] Later, American traveler John C. Fremont and Kit Carson camped at the springs in 1844. [2]
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Mountain Springs Summit was the mountain pass taken by this route over the Spring Mountains between the Pahrump Valley and the Las Vegas Springs in the Las Vegas Valley on the Old Spanish Trail. [3]: 265–270 After 1848 it was followed by wagon trains on the Mormon Road, traveling between Southern California and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tecopa Road / Old Spanish Trail Highway – Tecopa: Former Old Spanish Trail alignment [14] Nye 0.000–37.032: Pahrump: 53.036: 85.353: SR 372 west (Charles Brown Highway) / Crawford Way – Shoshone, Death Valley: Bell Vista Avenue – Death Valley: To SR 127 / SR 190 west 80.325: 129.271: US 95 – Las Vegas, Tonopah, Reno