List of Western Trails

Contributed by Steve F. Russell

We acknowledge that virtually all the trails listed below were originally followed by North American indigenous people thousands of years before the dates given here. In turn, they were most often following the trails of the Animal People who preceded them.—KKT, ed.

• 1738-1743 Explorations of the La Verendryes in the Northern Plains
• 1750 The Old North Trails (Ice Age Trails)
• 1750 Continental Divides of the Western USA
• 1775-76 Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
• 1775-76 de Anza Trail
• 1776-77 Friar Silvestre Velez de Escalante
• 1804 Grand Portage Water Trail
• 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
• 1805-1866 Northern Nez Perces Trail
• 1805 Shoshoni North Trail
• 1806 Ordway’s Route
• 1806 Blackfoot River Trail
• 1811-1812 Oregon Trail, Hunt and the Astorians
• 1812-1813-Oregon-Trail, Robert Stuart
• 1819 Sir Donald Mackenzie
• 1823 Stephen Long Expedition
• 1825 Snake River Expedition HBC (Kittson)
• 1829 Old Spanish Trail
• 1832-1833 Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
• 1832 Wyeth, Nathaniel
• 1834 Wyeth, Russell, Lee, Townsend to Oregon
• 1835 Oregon Trail (Parker)
• 1835-1866 Southern Nez Perces Trail
• 1835 Parker Trail
• 1836 Journey to Oregon (Whitman-Spalding-Mcleod)
• 1837 Oregon Trail
• 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson Route
• 1842-43 Oregon Trail (Fremont)
• 1842 Medorem Crawford Route
• 1843 Fremont Route to Southern California
• 1843 Oregon Trail
• 1843 Fremont Route to Oregon
• 1843-45 California Trail (Walker-Stevens)
• 1843 California Trail (Walker-Childs or Childs-Walker)
• 1843 Bishop Creek Route
• 1843-1856 Emigration Trails to Southern California
• 1844 Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party, California
• 1844 Sublette Cutoff
• 1844-45 Truckee Route (Stephens-Townsend-Murphy)
• 1845 Meek Cutoff
• 1845-46 Barlow Road
• 1846 California Emigrant Road (Jefferson)
• 1846 Applegate Trail
• 1846 California Road (Raft River & New Helvetia)
• 1846 California Trail (Raft-Humbolt Rivers)
• 1846 California Trail (Truckee-Donner)
• 1846 Clyman Party
• 1846 Donner (Truckee) Pass
• 1846 Hastings Cutoff
• 1846 Mormon Pioneer Trail
• 1846-1847 Donner-Reed Party Trail
• 1846-1847 Bryant, Edwin
• 1847 Mormon Emigrant Trail to Southern California
• 1847 Emigrant Roads to Southern California
• 1847 Salt Lake and California Road
• 1848 Carson Trail
• 1848 Oregon Trail
• 1848 Lassen Trail
• 1848 Mormon Emigrant Trail
• 1848 Salt Lake Alternate
• 1848 Burnett Cutoff
• 1848 Fremont Explorations
• 1848 California Trail (Carson River-Pass)
• 1848c South Alternate
• 1849 Greenhorn Cutoff
• 1849 Hudspeth Cutoff
• 1850 Parleys Golden Pass Road
• 1850 Child’s Alternate
• 1850 Daggett Pass-Georgetown Pack Trail
• 1850 Fort Hall North-South Trail
• 1850 Georgetown Pack Trail
• 1850 Nevada City Road
• 1851 California Trail Routes
• 1851 Clark-Skidmore Route
• 1851 Ebbetts Pass Trail
• 1851 Beckwourth Trail
• 1852 Baker-Davis Road
• 1852 Johnson Cutoff Road
• 1852 Kenney-Slate Creek Cutoff
• 1852 Nobles Trail
• 1852 Yreka Trail
• 1852 Volcano Road
• 1852 Placer County Emigrant Road
• 1852 Grizzly Flat Road
• 1852 Oregon Trail (Meeker)
• 1852 Slate Creek Cutoff
• 1852 Sonora Road
• 1852 Walker River-Sonora Trail
• 1852c Goodale-Jeffery Alternate
• 1852c Big Tree Road
• 1854 Mullan Pacific Railroad Survey
• 1854 Dempsey-Hockaday Cutoff
• 1854 Luther Pass Road
• 1855 Williamson-Abbot Survey, California-Oregon
• 1855-1862 Nez Perce Reservation Trails
• 1855-1926 Central Overland Trails
• 1856-1860 Ft. Bridger & Salt Lake Trails
• 1856 Lockhart Wagon Road
• 1858 Lander Road
• 1859-1863 Mullan Military Wagon Road
• 1859 St. Paul and Walla Walla Road (Marcy)
• 1859 Henness Pass Road
• 1862 Milner Trail Idaho
• 1864 Bridger’s Wagon Trail
• 1864 Pierce City Wagon Road
• 1864 Great Overland Stage Route
• 1865 Graham’s Wagon Road (DeLacy)
• 1866 Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark
• 1866 Lewiston and Virginia City Wagon Road
• 1866 Bitterroot Valley Trail, Westside (Nicholson)
• 1866 Bird-Truax Trail
• 1866 Bozeman Trail
• 1866 Nicholson-Ashland-LLT-SNT-L&C-Trails
• 1866 Northern Nez Perce Trail
• 1866 Southern Nez Perce Trail
• 1867 Camp Harney & Camp McDermitt Military Wagon Road
• 1867 Frenchwoman’s Road
• 1867 Southern Oregon Wagon Road
• 1867 Fort Boise & Winemucca Military Road
• 1867 Brewer Recon Trail
• 1867 Umatilla and Silver City Road
• 1868 Fort Ellis and Musselshell City Trail
• 1868 Musselshell (Carroll) Trail
• 1869 Central & Union Pacific Railroad
• 1869 Musselshell and Helena Trail
• 1869 Clift Wagon Road Exploration
• 1869 Clift Musselshell Fort Ellis Wagon Road Exploration
• 1869 Clift Flathead-Nez-Perce-Buffalo-Trail
• 1869 Diamond City and Canyon Ferry Road
• 1869 Musselshell Fort Ellis Military Wagon Road (CLIFT)
• 1869 Canyon Ferry Road 1869
• 1869 Musselshell Trail 1869
• 1869 Helena and Musselshell Trail (Clift)1869
• 1869 Musselshell City and Fort Benton Trail
• 1870 Camp Baker and Fort Ellis Trail
• 1871-72 El Vado Trail (Anza Trail)
• 1872 Lewiston and Mount Idaho Wagon Road
• 1872 Oregon Central Military Wagon Road
• 1874 Whoop-Up Trail
• 1874-75 Carroll Trail
• 1875 Carroll to Yellowstone Recon Trail (Ludlow)
• 1875 Fort Shaw and Camp Lewis Trail
• 1875 Carroll Trail & Wagon Road
• 1875 Helena and Carroll Trail
• 1877 Fort Shaw and Camp Baker Road
• 1877 Nez Perce National Historic Trail
• 1877 Fletcher-Howard Route
• 1877 Clearwater Battlefield Trail
• 1877 Nez Perce War Trail
• 1877 Boise and Kooskia Trail
• 1877 Camp Baker and Fort Shaw Road
• 1879 Lewiston and Boise Trail
• 1880s Tongue River Road
• 1881 Oregon Shortline Railroad
• 1883 Wilder Trail
• 1884 Fort Benton-Billings-Stage-Road
• 1891 Fort McLeow and Fort Shaw Trail
• 1895c Jamison Trail
• 1913 Lincoln Highway
• 1922 Wilder-Zortman-Trail
• 1926 US Highway 50
• 1926 Lincoln Highway
• 1933 Wilder-Zortman-Trail
• 1970 Ely C. Johnson Mail Route
• 1988 Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark
• 1989 Idaho Centennial Trail
• Boise to Blackfoot Northside Trail
• Boise & Silver City & California Trail
• Boise & Camp Lyons Trail
• Florence and Warren Trail
• Florence and Slate Creek Trail
• Fort Boise to Montana Road
• Goodale Alternate
• Kelton-Boise Stage Road
• Lewiston and Idaho City Trail
• South Idaho Trails
• White Sulphur Springs and Livingston Road

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