National Historic Trails (Non-Units) - Old Spanish

Old Spanish National Historic Trail (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah)

9/10/2008 Santa Fe National Historic Trail

9/19/2009 Headed back to LV and went to Old Spanish Trail Park. The park is a square block with nice children’s stuff in the middle, but angling across is a path defining the original route of the OST [NHT in NV], with historical plaques.

The park sign

Some trail info ...

... and some more ...

... and some more

A view across the park

10/4/2012 Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area

10/5/2012 Great Sand Dunes National Park

4/27/2017 We made a brief stop in the general area where the Old Spanish NHT [CO] passes through across the San Luis Valley floor...

Nice view of the Sangre de Cristo range

4/30/2017 Old Spanish NHT. We located a sign on a wall noting Santa Fe as the start of the trail to the California coast.

Me by ...

... the sign

Trail detail

4/9/2019 ... we made two quick stops off the highway. The first was in a little pullout area down a side road which was Historic Route 66, and had a monument about the many uses of the path through the Cajon Pass, including the Old Spanish Trail NHT [CA] and Route 66. We continued on 66 for a bit as we returned to the main highway where the original 66 died, then right back off again for the second stop, also right off the highway and on the original 66. This stop had another monument about the Santa Fe Trail, also called the Old Spanish Trail in California.

A little monument ...

... with OST info

Second monument ...

... and more info