• Chimney Rock was an important emigrant landmark in western Nebraska

    California

    National Historic Trail CA,CO,ID,KS,MO,NE,NV,OR,UT,WY

Original Route BEGIN Sign

CALI_Original Route Begin sign

As discussed for the Original Route NEXT XX MILES sign, this original route sign is used to identify the beginning point of a segment of road to be signed as an original route. See the description of Original Route NEXT XX MILES for consideration of use.

Did You Know?

The Silver Mountains and Bonneville Salt Flats along the Nevada and Utah border.

After struggling across nearly 100 miles of salt flats and soft, wet sand in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert in the late summer of 1846, the Donner-Reed wagon train reached the Silver Mountains and fresh water just north of this location along Interstate 80 near the Nevada/Utah border. More...