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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
The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century.While portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as a route alternative to the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails through central Wyoming.
loop of the U.S. west combining the Pacific Crest Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, Continental Divide Trail and other trails. [12] Great Western Trail: 4,455 7,170 Western Rockies: Canada: Mexico: passes through Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming: Great Western Trail (Illinois) 92 148 Illinois, Iowa: mostly rails to trails conversion ...
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.
Nine new land and water trails were designated to join the nation’s existing network of more than 1,300 recreation trails located in every state. America’s recreation trail system added new ...
It took them just under six months to trek the 2,653-mile (4,270-kilometer) trail extending from the border of Mexico through California, Oregon, and Washington to Canada, and the Netteburgs say ...
National Trails System; National Millennium Trail project – 16 long-distance trails selected in 2000 as visionary trails that reflect defining aspects America's history and culture; Trail, long-distance trail; List of long-distance trails, Long-distance trails in the United States, List of rail trails; State wildlife trails (United States)
WORCESTER, Mass. – Local police in this central Massachusetts city used excessive force and engaged in “outrageous” sexual contact with women during undercover operations, a two-year civil ...