Trail Resources: High Potential Sites and Segments, Old Spanish National Historic Trail
New Mexico
Santa FeCounty
Communities:
Santa Fé
San Ildefonso Pueblo (NR)
TesuqueVillage
Tesuque Pueblo (NR)
Nambé Pueblo (NR)
Associated sites:
Palace of the Governors (NR and SR)
Santa Fé Plaza
Tesuque Pueblo (NR)
Nambé Pueblo (NR)
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
Santa FePlaza
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive Facilities:
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe
Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe
Rio Arriba County
Communities:
Abiquíu
Santa Clara Pueblo (NR)
Chimayo
Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (NR)
Santa Cruz
Associated sites:
AbiquíuPlaza
Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas (NR)
Santa Clara Pueblo (NR)
Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel (NR)
Ojo de Navajo, Macomb’s camp #6
La Puerta Grande
El Vado
Old FortLowell
Cerro de Pedernal (AbiquíuPeak)
Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (NR)
Macomb’s camp #2 at San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo)
Old Spanish Mission, Santa Cruz,1773
Abiquíu Reservoir wagon roads, vicinity of Dominguez/Escalante marker
Wagon road segment above Chama overlook
Poshuouinge Ruins
High-potential segments:
LargoCanyon
Daytrips:
Abiquiu Reservoir
El Vado Lake
Chama Overlook – Wagon Road
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Ojo Sarco
El Vado
CarracasCanyon
Interpretive facilities:
PiedreLumbreEducation & VisitorCenter, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu
TaosCounty
Communities:
Taos
TaosPueblo
Ranchos de Taos
Arroyo Hondo
Questa
Associated sites:
TaosPlaza
TaosPueblo (NR, SR)
Church of St. Francis of Assísi (NR)
Talpa (LA3931)
Kit Carson House (NHL) (LA3929)
Simon Turley’s mill and distillery
(San Antonio del Río Colorado) (LA5200)
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
San Cristobal
San Pablo and San Pedro
Interpretive facilities:
Kit Carson Home and Museum, Taos
Rio GrandeGorgeVisitorCenter, Pilar
San JuanCounty
Communities:
Aztec
Blanco
Associated sites:
AztecRuinsNational Monument
LargoSchool Pueblito
Tapacito Pueblito
Split Rock Ruin
CrowCanyon Petroglyphs
High-potential segments:
LargoCanyon
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
LowerLargoCanyon
Aztec to La Plata
Interpretive facilities:
AztecRuinsNationalMonumentVisitorCenter, Aztec
FarmingtonMuseum, Farmington
SalmonRuinsMuseum, Bloomfield
Colorado
AlamosaCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
MoscaPass Campsite (5AL303)
High-potential segments:
Great Sand Dunes
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
GreatSandDunesNational Park & PreserveVisitorCenter, Mosca
ConejoCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
GuadalupePlaza (5CN490)
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
None
CostillaCounty
Communities:
FortGarland
Blanca
Associated sites:
FortGarland (NR)
FortMassachusetts (5CT30)
La Valle townsite (4CT128)
Blanca road segments
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
San Pablo and San Pedro
Interpretive facilities:
SanLuisMuseum and Cultural Center, San Luis
FortGarlandMuseum, FortGarland
DeltaCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Ford of Uncompahgre River south of Delta
Ford/crossing of the GunnisonRiver west of Delta
Fort Roubideau/Robidoux 1828-1844
FortUncompaghre and FortRobidoux, (5DT606 and 5DT746)
Fool’s Hill traces (5DT854, 5DT854.1, 5DT854.2) between Grand Junction and Delta are part of Old Salt Lake Wagon Road/Old Spanish Trail
Salt Lake Wagon Road campsite (5DT853)
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
Grand River Crossing
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
FortUncompahgreHistoryMuseum, Delta
DoloresCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Dolores to Monticello Road between Yellowjacket and Cahone; 1884 Utah Road, 1913 Utah Road, 1916 Utah Road, 1913 Monticello-to-Dolores Road)
Cross Canyon springs (springs also may be in MontezumaCounty)
Irwin Spring
AlkaliCanyon trail traces
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
GunnisonCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
None
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
Curecanti Reservoir
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
None
La PlataCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Dominguez/Escalante crossing of the Animas (5LP1971), marked with plaque
Durango Home Depot trail segments
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
RidgesBasin
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
Southern UteMuseum and Cultural Center, Ignacio
MesaCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Gunnison crossing of the Colorado at Grand Junction (5ME775.1)
Kannah Creek Trail (5ME1187)
Kannah Creek campground
Fool’s Hill traces (5ME775) between Grand Junction and Delta are part of Old Salt Lake Wagon Road/Old Spanish Trail
Trail traces along GunnisonRiver s. of Grand Junction
Whitewater Hill Road identified as remnant of Salt Lake Wagon Road/Old Spanish Trail
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
Whitewater Trails
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Book Cliffs
Westwater
Interpretive facilities:
ColoradoNationalMonumentVisitorCenter, Fruita
Museum of WesternColorado, Grand Junction
MontezumaCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Yellowjacket Springs Stage Station
Yellowjacket Pueblo (NR)
Dolores to Monticello Road between Yellowjacket and Cahone; 1884 Utah Road, 1913 Utah Road, 1916 Utah Road, 1913 Monticello-to-Dolores Road)
Cross Canyon springs
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
Dominguez Escalante Memorial
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
AnasaziHeritageCenter, Dolores
UteMountainUteTribalParkVisitorsCenter and Museum, Towaoc
MontroseCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Old Salt Lake Road
Ute Memorial Site and Chief Ouray’s Ranch (NR)
Ford of Uncompahgre River just south of Olathe
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
UteIndianMuseum, Montrose
Rio GrandeCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Del Norte wagon ruts, aka Limekiln Wagon Tracks (5RN539.1)
Frémont campsite, Del Norte (5RN393)
La Garita wagon traces
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
Rio GrandeCountyMuseum and Cultural Center, Del Norte
Transportation of the WestMuseum, Monte Vista
SaguacheCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Frémont’s Groundhog Creek Camp of the 1848-1849 expedition (5SH1301)
Cochetopa trail traces
CochetopaPass, aka Marcy’s Crossing (5SH1025)
High-potential segments:
CochetopaPass
Cochetopa Creek
TomichiCanyon
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
CochetopaPass
CochetopaCanyon
Interpretive facilities:
SaguacheCountyMuseum, Saguache
Utah
EmeryCounty
Communities:
Green River
Associated sites:
San Rafael Swell ruts (42Em1485)
Castle Dale-Green River Wagon Road (NR)
Ivie Creek Pictographs
Trail segments east of Castle Dale: Buckhorn Flat, Furniture Draw, Walker Flat, Iron Springs Camp, Big Hole
Colorado Wash Inscriptions near Moore, UT, 1812(?), JW Gunnison, J Frémont 1844
High-potential segments:
San Rafael Swell
Daytrips:
San Rafael Swell
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
San Rafael Swell
Interpretive facilities:
JohnWesleyPowellRiverHistoryMuseum, Green River
GarfieldCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
None
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Little Creek
Interpretive facilities:
None
GrandCounty
Communities:
Green River
Associated sites:
Colorado River Crossing near Moab
Inscription “Antoine Robidoux passé ici le 13 Novembre 1837 pouir etablire maison traitte a la Rv. Vert ou wiyte” (42Gr2302)
Trail segment nw of Moab (42Gr2630)
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Thompson Springs
Westwater
Book Cliffs
Blue Hills
Interpretive facilities:
Arches National Park Visitor Center, Moab
IronCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Paragonah Inscriptions, 1831
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Local Loop:
Little Creek
Iron Springs
Interpretive facilities:
None
KaneCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
El Vado de Los Padres/Crossing of the Fathers
High-potential segments:
Box of the Pariah
Daytrips:
LakePowell
Auto Tour Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
Big WaterVisitorCenter, GrandStaircase-EscalanteNational Monument, Big Water
KanabVisitorCenter, GrandStaircase-EscalanteNational Monument, Kanab
PiuteCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
None
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
LongValley
Interpretive facilities:
None
San JuanCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Piute Springs (Ute Springs)
Ojo Verde (landmark)
Hatch Rock (landmark)
Looking Glass Rock (landmark), dugout wagon road (42Sa1566)
SouthCanyon (landmark)
Canyon Pintado (landmark)
Casa Colorado (landmark) and tanks/tinajas
Casa Colorado Wash trail segments
Mule ShoeWash trail segments
Red Rock (landmark)
Summit Point (landmark)
Kane Springs/St. Louis Rock, wagon roads (42Sa11566.11)
High-potential segments:
EastCanyon
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Ucolo
Daytrips:
None
Interpretive facilities:
San Juan Multi-agency Visitor Center, Monticello
SevierCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Gunnison’s Route across southern CastleValley (42Sv2245)
Ivie Creek Pictographs
Trail segments at Um Creek and near the spring east of Koosharem
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
SoldierCanyon
LongValley
Interpretive facilities:
None
WashingtonCounty
Communities:
Associated sites:
Mountain Meadow Trail segments (42Ws2528), including Dan Sill Creek crossing
Hamblin townsite
Mountain Meadow itself
Hamblin Ranch, between HoltCanyon and Mountain Meadows, and trail segments (42Ws1585)
Camp Spring, near Shivwitz, inscriptions
Newcastle, Utah interpretive site “Site of Blacksmith Shop on the Old Spanish Trail, 1800-1850”
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Honeymoon Trail
Interpretive facilities:
None
Nevada
ClarkCounty
Communities:
Las Vegas
Associated sites:
Virgin Hill, to top of Mormon Mesa
Mormon Mesa
Halfway Wash, Mormon Mesa
Trail segments on Moapa River Indian Reservation, in the Virgin, Moapa and DryLakeValleys
Trail segments near Nellis Air Force Base
Trail segments near Las Vegas (26CK3848, and others from BLM pub)
Stuart Ranch pictographs
Old Salt Lake Road, Big Springs, and Mormon Fort trail segments (26CK3848)
Mormon Fort (26CK1214)
Big Springs Archaeological District (26CK948, 26CK949) (NR)
SpringMountainRanchState Park (NR)
Blue Diamond Springs/Cottonwood Springs (26CK2001), and ruts
Mountain Springs
Stump Spring (26CK3848)
California Valley/Pahrump Valley divide trail traces
Piute Wash, west of BullheadCity, trail traces
High-potential segments:
Mormon Mesa
Sandy Valley/Stump Springs
Daytrips:
Duck Creek
Stump Spring
The Strip
Lake Mead
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Virgin River
SandyValley
Interpretive facilities:
AlanBibleVisitorCenter, Lake Mead National Recreational Area, BoulderCity
ClarkCountyMuseum, Henderson
NevadaStateMuseum and Historical Society, Las Vegas
RedRockCanyonNationalConservationAreaVisitorCenter, Las Vegas
VirginValleyHeritageMuseum, Mesquite
Arizona
ApacheCounty
Communities:
Teec Nos Pos
Dennehotso
Sweetwater
Associated sites:
Sweetwater
Sand Springs
High-potential segments:
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
Sweetwater and Sand Springs
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
None
CoconinoCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
PipeSpringsNational Monument (NR and SR)
Stinking Water (La Verking Springs)
Pipe Spring-Fredonia Road
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
CarlHaydenVisitorCenter at GlenCanyon Dam, GlenCanyon National Recreation Area, Page
JohnWesleyPowellMemorialMuseum, Page
MonumentValleyNavajoTribalParkVisitorCenter, one mile east of U.S. Highway 163, on Arizona/Utah border
NavajoBridge Interpretive Center, GlenCanyon National Recreation Area, MarbleCanyon
Pipe Spring National Monument-Kaibab Band of PaiuteIndiansVisitorCenter and Museum, Fredonia
MohaveCounty
Communities:
None
Associated sites:
Mohave villages along the Colorado, visited by Garces in 1776, Jedidiah Smith 1826 and 1827, Whipple in 1854
Beale’s Road/Mohave Road
FortMojave
Beaver Dam, Virgin River trail traces
Beaver Dam Creek inscriptions (Henry W. Bigler initials)
Big Bend of the Virgin River trail traces
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
None
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
None
NavajoCounty
Communities:
Kayenta
Associated sites:
NavajoNational Monument (NR)
High-potential segments:
LongCanyon
Daytrips:
TsegiCanyon
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
NavajoNationalMonumentVisitorCenter, Tonalea
California
InyoCounty
Communities:
Tecopa
Associated sites:
EmigrantPass and trail traces
Tecopa area trail traces
Resting Spring
Tecopa Hot Springs
Yaga, Paiute village at Tecopa Hot Springs
Amargosa Spring
High-potential segments:
AmargosaRiver
Daytrips:
Stump Spring
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
SandyValley
Los AngelesCounty
Communities:
El Monte
San Gabriel
Los Angeles
Pueblo de Los Angeles
Associated sites:
El Pueblo de Los Angeles (NR)
Mission San Gabriel Archangel
William Workman Home and Cemetery (CaliforniaState Historic Landmark #874), 15415 E Don Julian Rd, City of Industry
The Workman and TempleFamilyHomesteadMuseum
Avila Adobe
High-potential segments:
None
Daytrips:
El Pueblo de Los Angeles
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
None
Interpretive facilities:
El Pueblo de Los AngelesHistoricalMonument, Los Angeles
San Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel
San BernardinoCounty
Communities:
Barstow
Baker
Helendale
Oro Grande
Victorville
Rancho Cucamonga
Associated sites:
Mohave Road (CA-Sbr-4928-H) at SodaLake
Soda Springs
Salt Springs and trail traces at Salt Springs
Marl Springs
Bitter Springs/Agua de Tomaso/Agua de Tio Mesa (NR)
Camp Cady (California Registered Historic Landmark #995)
ImpassiblePass and AlvordMountain trail segments (CA-Sbr-6551, CA-Sbr-4272-H, CA-Sbr-4411-H)
Fork of the Roads trail segments (CA-Sbr-4928/CA-Sbr-3033-H, Mohave Road, CA-Sbr-4272-H, Old Spanish Trail, CA-Sbr-4411-H, Mormon Road)
Punta de Agua
Point of Rocks
Trail traces west of Barstow
Lane’s Crossing (NR)
Spring Ranch (NR)
Adelanto Springs (NR)/Topipabit
Lane’s Crossing to Bell MountainWash (CA-Sbr-4411)
CrowderCanyon and CajonCanyon (CA-Sbr-4272)
CajonPass
John Brown’s Toll Road (CaliforniaState Historic Landmark #977)
Little HorsethiefCanyon
Sanford Cutoff/Sanford Pass Route
Muscopiabit
Sycamore Grove
De Siena Springs, Vincent Lugo adobe
AguaMansaCemetery
San SalvadorChurch and Politana (California Historic Landmark #121)
San Bernardino Asistencia
High-potential segments:
South Mohave Road
AftonCanyon
RedPass
AmargosaRiver
Spanish Canyon/Impassible Pass
Daytrips:
Pacific Crest Trail
Auto Tour Route Local Loops:
AftonCanyon
Interpretive facilities:
DesertDiscoveryCenter, Barstow
KelsoDepotVisitorCenter, Mojave National Preserve, Kelso
MojaveRiverValleyMuseum, Barstow
San BernardinoCountyMuseum, Redlands