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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.
US Highway 131 (US 131) is a north–south United States Highway, of which all but 0.64 of its 269.96 miles (1.03 of 434.46 km) are within the state of Michigan.The highway starts in rural Indiana south of the state line as a state road connection to the Indiana Toll Road.
Route 2920: 0.013 0.021 [10] Louisiana: Highway 897-5: 0.050 0.080 [11] Maryland: Route 939: 0.01 0.016 [12] Route 963: 0.01 0.016 [12] Route 990: 0.01 0.016 [12] Massachusetts: Route 15: 0.23 0.37 [13] Michigan: M-212: 0.732 1.178 [14] [15] Montana: Highway 68: 1.494 2.404 [16] Nevada: State Route 781: 0.039 0.063 [17] New Hampshire: Route 141 ...
M-66 runs for 266.399 miles (428.728 km) as an almost entirely a north–south undivided surface highway in western Michigan from the Indiana state line north to Lake Michigan at Charlevoix. [1] Most of the highway is two-lane undivided rural highway. There is a section south of Battle Creek that is a four-lane expressway.
The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed after electing to follow a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah.
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I-80/I-90 (Indiana Toll Road) near Middlebury: US 131 near Middlebury 1961: current US 136: 74.930: 120.588 US 136 near Foster: I-74/I-465 in Speedway: 1952: current US 150: 177.17: 285.13 US 150 near West Terre Haute: I-64/US 150 at New Albany: 1926: current US 152: 168: 270 US 36/US 40/US 52 in Indianapolis: US 41 in St. John
Indiana Toll Road from I-80/I-90/I-94 split in NW Indiana to Ohio state line I-90: 156.28: 251.51 I-90 at Illinois state line in Hammond: I-80/I-90 at Ohio state line east of Angola: 1956: current Indiana Toll Road: I-94: 46.13: 74.24 I-80/I-94 at Illinois state line in Munster: I-94 at Michigan state line northeast of Michigan City: 1956: current