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  2. Oregon-California Trails Association - Wikipedia

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    For example, OCTA's guide to Mapping Emigrant Trails (MET Manual) became the National Park Service's benchmark protocol for GPS-assisted topographical mapping along other historic and scenic trails. Three major historical trails crossed America's western territories as wagon train routes to Santa Fe, Oregon, and California.

  3. Pacific Northwest Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) is a 1,200-mile (1,900 km) hiking trail running from the Continental Divide in Montana to the Pacific Ocean on Washington's Olympic Coast. . Along the way, the PNT crosses three national parks, seven national forests, and two other national scenic trai

  4. Route of the Oregon Trail - Wikipedia

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    Later, several feeder trails led across Kansas, and some towns became starting points, including Weston, Missouri, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. The Oregon Trail's nominal termination point was Oregon City, at the time the proposed capital of the Oregon Territory. However, many settlers ...

  5. Category:Trails and roads in the American Old West - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Overland Trail (18 P) P. Pony Express (3 C, 21 P) S. Santa Fe Trail (76 P) V. ... Oregon Trail; Oregon-California Trails ...

  6. List of long-distance trails in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Paved trail along the Spokane River connects to the North Idaho Centennial Trail for further 23 miles. Standing Stone Trail: 80 129 Pennsylvania: Mid State Trail near McAlevys Fort, Pennsylvania: Tuscarora Trail in Buchanan State Forest: Connects the Mid State and Tuscarora Trails. Known as the Link Trail until 2007. Superior Hiking Trail: 310 ...

  7. Hastings Cutoff - Wikipedia

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    A sentence in Hastings' guidebook briefly describes the cutoff: The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described.

  8. Acorns aren't just for squirrels, but read this before eating ...

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    No, this isn't an article written for (or by) squirrels – humans can actually eat acorns under certain circumstances. The nuts stem from oak trees, and can actually elicit a mild, nutty flavor. ...

  9. Great Platte River Road - Wikipedia

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    The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming that was shared by several popular emigrant trails during the 19th century, including the Trapper's Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Pony Express route ...