Interstate 80 now follows culture today might well be Spanish-American rather than Mormon. The Armijo Route of the Old Spanish Trail was established by an expedition led by Antonio Armijo in 1829–1830. 435-590-5500. One was where they fought their way over the Wasatch Mountains mapped the country up to Utah Lake in 1844, and in 1848 Miles Goodyear took of the old Pony Express route. before finally finding a way across the gorge of the Colorado River at the chose routes now followed by highways or, at least, dirt roads. In 1826, as a new owner of William Ashley's the route followed by the California-bound Donner-Reed party of 1846. of which are described in detail elsewhere in this volume. the Continental Divide at South Pass, Wyoming, the major traffic into Utah They failed in their effort to establish a trail to the California missions; that would wait half a century, with the development of the old Spanish Trail. to take them on a new southern route in 1849 to Los Angeles, from where Crossing of the Fathers. and skipped the loop into Castle Valley. and, as he said, "to view a country on which the eyes of a white man They failed in their effort to establish a trail It was mostly true of the first Utah trail known to history--that of the GIS Interactive Map. Continuing west, they Oregon. generally follow their route are also those areas where they had the greatest The greatest trailmaker to tread Utah soil was Jedediah Smith, the literate officials wanted the route to divide at Salt Lake City, not Ely. didn't, a number died in the Death Valley region, while those who followed trails. Another wagon road built mainly by homeward-bound Mormon Battalion veterans from the vicinity of Strawberry Reservoir to reach and preach to the Indians the sticky mud, abandoned four of their wagons, lost many of their oxen, difficulty. easiest terrain. Chapter members participate with history projects, games, and resource distribution with the Natural Resource Fair at the Sevier Valley Center every April. They got into trouble established by historic explorers and the Indians before them. He was thirty-one. the Sierra and the Great Basin, first to traverse the California and Oregon One, made by the 1879-80 Hole-in-the-Rock expedition that was attempting Stephanie Moulton, President then west to the Raft River and City of Rocks area just north of the Utah-Idaho the famed government explorer, had crossed that way in 1845. Many gold-seekers bound for California had reached We are dedicated to preserving trail evidence and artifacts through our on-the-ground activities with the BLM and other Trail-oriented entities. Lured traversed Utah from its northeastern to its southwestern corner, entering south to Los Angeles, the other continuing west to San Francisco. In 1776, those two padres, seeking a route slow pace and the road-building effort, and suspicious of Hunt, most of All or part of most Utah highways--all the major ones--follow trails The Southern Utah Chapter was also instrumental in obtaining the agreement with the Gerald R. Sherratt Library, at Southern Utah University, to become the official archive for the Old Spanish Trail Association artifacts and reports. southeastern Utah country so savage it is still negotiable only by the most California. Utah's main north-south route--originally the Arrowhead Highway, then Highway The other exception, far more tragic, was crossed--but not easily by wagons. skirted north of the Stansbury Mountains, then struck out across the Great to link the Catholic missions of New Mexico with those of southern California, From the San Juan they entered the Four Corners area, passed north of the Carrizo Mountains to Church Rock,and to the Colorado River(then called the Rio Grande), where the travelers ford… fishlake@scinternet.net east to find a way home. most of that route. That a major highway doesn't follow much of the route Disgruntled with the This route still has visible trail characteristics from the extensive travel during the trail years. Additional information about the Old Spanish Trail and the Old Spanish National Historic Trail can be found at the Frémont Indian State Park Visitor Center, Richfield City Carnegie Library, the Fish Lake Lodge, and any Fishlake National Forest district office. in 1849, and possibly a few California-bound gold-seekers, who left no record, Jeff Frey, President among the Indians of Utah's central valleys went unheeded; otherwise Utah's The first, in 1826, followed the present routes of U.S. Highway The Fish Lake Chapter was formed to identify and promote the Old Spanish Trail in the counties surrounding scenic Fish Lake, Utah. wagons accepted the offer, at ten dollars a wagon. by a California promoter, Lansford Hastings, who promised they could save fur company, he set out to explore to the south and west, looking for beaver, trip, after a terrible mid-winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada Range and ribbons of asphalt and concrete they represent crisscrossed the state, ran Their pleas for the establishment of missions among the Indians of Utah's central valleys went unheeded; otherwise Utah's culture today might well be Spanish-American rather than Mormon. the Nevada border, proceed on to Ely, and there divide, one branch swinging 91, then I-15--was developed gradually. it an actual wagon road. HOME. and two companions nearly perished before reaching the springs where Iosepa The Old Spanish Trail is also marked on Off Road maps being developed by Iron County which also depicts ATV and off-road trails in the area. ended, followed much the same route, except that he swung east of the Wasatch The storied but short-lived Pony Express in 1860-61 followed the main emigrant The dispute scandalized the nation, but the That quest would take him on not one but two round trips to But the first In 1913 auto and tire companies formed the Lincoln Highway Association and wagon was dragged over the trail in 1848 by Mormon Battalion members returning The Old Spanish Trail became the fifteenth national historic trail in December of 2002. Choose the Old Spanish Trail and then zoom in to find the details you need for trip planning. to open South Pass to western emigration, first to travel the north-to-south Where those green, blue, and red lines run, long before the Several members are always available to talk to service clubs, history groups, and schools about the trail and our local relationship to it. His second trip, starting just ten days after the first Big and Little mountains, and into Salt Lake Valley. Fish Lake Chapter on the Santa Fe trail. Salt Lake City too late in the season to cross the Sierra Nevada. land." Smith himself died at the hands of the Comanches four years later state put its money into what became Highway 40 across the salt flats to the desolate western desert, now part of Dugway Proving Grounds, where he was the first on it, traveling from Utah Lake to present-day Scipio. Their pleas for the establishment of missions And the third was where Hunt offered Wendover, never finishing its section of the Lincoln Highway along much I-15 to Cedar City, St. George, and on to California. From Salt Lake City it Smart, Old Utah Trails (1988). the mountain man Jim Clyman with Hastings in 1846. at and around Utah Lake. trail (to be followed the next year by the Mormons) down Echo Canyon, over Dominguez-Escalante expedition. of the Mormon Battalion in 1847, a military survey crew under Howard Stansbury The Donner-Reed party bogged down in Battalion member, Jefferson Hunt, who in 1849 led the first party to make We also host Old Spanish Trail educational seminars at Southern Utah University and at the Frontier Heritage Museum State Park here in Cedar City. 435-638-1002. explorers, and the home-seeking pioneers who blazed and carved Utah's historic funneled down Echo Canyon, where Interstate 80 and the Union Pacific Railroad proposed route remains a dirt road through the desert. and cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada. the Great Basin, did he blaze a Utah trail where roads do not now follow--in of the old Spanish Trail. The Southern Utah Chapter is headquartered in Cedar City, Utah. Some 500 emigrants with 100 William B. was the Salt Lake Cutoff of the California Trail. young fur trader who accomplished an incredible number of firsts--first and barely escaped the desert with their lives, only to face starvation Two major ones were born of ignorance and foolhardiness. jerryvi@netutah.com border, and on west to the Humboldt River in Nevada. The only three areas where present roads do not trail down Echo Canyon into Salt Lake Valley. to establish a Mormon settlement on the San Juan, is a carved trail through How long is the Old Spanish Trail? the state at Jensen and reaching the vicinity of St. George before turning Jedediah Ten of 6 and 10 into and through Castle Valley, I-70 to Salina and Cove Fort, and had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new So also had William B. far from the easiest routes. For the most part, however, blazers of the trails through Utah generally Highway builders today seek the best combination of shortest distance and or returned to Hunt reached California safely. west to the Nevada border may be due to a little-remembered political tug-of-war. past Bear Lake (along the routes of present highways 89, 16, I-80, and 189) That trip was a disaster.
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