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Old Oregon Trail Highway
The Old Oregon Trail Highway was an auto trail roughly following the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Seaside, Oregon and Olympia, Washington. In the U.S. Highway system, it became: *US 40, Kansas City to Wamego (now partly US 24) *No through road, Wamego to Grand Island via Marysville, Fairbury, Hebron, and Hastings *US 30, Grand Island to Ogallala *US 26, Ogallala to Dwyer * US 185, Dwyer to Orin (now US 87) *US 20, Orin to Casper * US 87E, Casper to Muddy Gap (now WYO 220) *No through road, Muddy Gap to Granger * US 30N, Granger to Cotterel (now US 30) *US 30, Cotterel to Astoria *US 101, Astoria to Seaside *US 99, Portland to Olympia (now I-5) The name is still used in Oregon for Interstate 84 east of U.S. Route 730, which is named the Old Oregon Trail Highway No. 6 (see Oregon highways and routes The state highway system of the U.S. state of Oregon is a network of highways that are owned and maintained by the Highway Division of the Oregon Department of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auto Trail
The system of auto trails was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in the early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on utility poles, the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile. Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway, maintained by the Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were the work of fly-by-night promoters, to the point that anyone with enough paint and the will to do so could set up a trail. Trails were not usually linked to road improvements, although counties and states often prioritized road improvements because they were on trails. In the mid-to-late 1920s, the auto trails were essentially replaced with the United States Numbered Highway System. The Canadian provinces had also begun implementing similar numbering schemes. List of aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |