of the old Spanish Trail. ran north along the present route of I-15 to the vicinity of Snowville, at and around Utah Lake. the earlier highways of exploration and adventure. The Southern Utah Chapter is headquartered in Cedar City, Utah. 91 from southern Idaho through Cache Valley and on to Utah Lake, highways 400 miles of travel, they left the known trail at Fort Bridger and cut a Only on his return then west to the Raft River and City of Rocks area just north of the Utah-Idaho they blundered across the redrock desert of southern Utah and northern Arizona the state at Jensen and reaching the vicinity of St. George before turning And the third was where jerryvi@netutah.com to the California missions; that would wait half a century, with the development Ewing Young, Kit Carson, and Peter Skene Ogden, followed. condor@kanab.net in southern Nevada, and fifteen others were killed by the Umpquas in southern Smart, Old Utah Trails (1988). Utah's main north-south route--originally the Arrowhead Highway, then Highway the route followed by the California-bound Donner-Reed party of 1846. Ten of Jedediah wagons accepted the offer, at ten dollars a wagon. The Dominguez-Escalante expedition they could travel north to the gold fields. wagon was dragged over the trail in 1848 by Mormon Battalion members returning the Continental Divide at South Pass, Wyoming, the major traffic into Utah especially true of two major routes--the Mormon and the old Spanish trails--both The Donner-Reed party bogged down in Smith traveled most of it in 1826 and 1827, and other trappers, including and cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada. 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. border, and on west to the Humboldt River in Nevada. before finally finding a way across the gorge of the Colorado River at the the desolate western desert, now part of Dugway Proving Grounds, where he The Old Spanish Trail is an historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements of (or near) Santa Fe, New Mexico with those of Los Angeles, California and southern California. Big and Little mountains, and into Salt Lake Valley. And it was a former generally follow their route are also those areas where they had the greatest was the Salt Lake Cutoff of the California Trail. In 1826, as a new owner of William Ashley's culture today might well be Spanish-American rather than Mormon. in the same year. trails. in the Beaver Dam Mountains, and most returned to the trail. southeastern Utah country so savage it is still negotiable only by the most This route still has visible trail characteristics from the extensive travel during the trail years.

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