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  2. File:NPS california-trail-map.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: CALImap1; Date and time of digitizing: 11:57, 18 May 2015: File change date and time: 11:57, 18 May 2015: Software used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 (Macintosh)

  3. California Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Hudspeth Cutoff and the Salt Lake Cutoff all rejoined the California Trail near the City of Rocks (For maps see NPS map California Trail: [86]). The trail then continued west over 7,100 feet (2,200 m) Granite Pass, which involved a steep, treacherous descent. West of Granite Pass, the trail was in the Great Basin drainage.

  4. Salt Lake Cutoff - Wikipedia

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    Samuel J. Hensley, returning to California in the summer of 1848, led a pack train of ten men on a quest to get back to the California Trail. After trying Hastings Route south of the Great Salt Lake and finding the salt flats too soft (heavy rains that year) for passage he returned to Salt Lake City and discovered a route, north of the Great Salt Lake.

  5. List of mountain passes in California - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.

  6. Interstate 80 in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The general route of I-80 was first used by California-bound travelers and was called the California Trail. From the Utah state line west to the Humboldt River, I-80 follows a modified routing of a lesser used branch of the trail called Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff rejoins the main route of the trail in the Humboldt River canyon.

  7. Mormon Road - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Category:Historic trails and roads in California - Wikipedia

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    California State Route 99; California State Route 154; California Trail; Carson Trail; Central Overland Route; Conejo Grade; Cooke's Wagon Road; Cottonwood Creek (Kern County) County Line Road (Santa Clara–Stanislaus counties, California)

  9. California State Route 70 - Wikipedia

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    Through the Feather River Canyon, from SR 149 to US 395, SR 70 is the Feather River Scenic Byway, a Forest Service Byway that parallels the ex-Western Pacific Railroad's Feather River Route. The Beckwourth Trail was the earliest predecessor of SR 70, which was a spur of the California Trail. This was followed by the railroad, mostly built on ...