AARoads:California/History/Emigration trails

California Trail, south to north ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7])

• Walker River-Sonora Route (1852)
  • Sonora-Mono Toll Road, Bridgeport to Sonora
• Big Trees Road (1856)
  • Big Tree and Carson Valley Turnpike (1864), Calaveras Big Trees to Silver Mountain
• Volcano Road (1852)
• Grizzly Flat Cutoff (1852)
• Carson Route (1848), Humboldt Sink to Pleasant Valley via Carson Pass
  • US 95 (NV), US 50 (NV), US 395 (NV), SR 88 (NV), SR 88, Mormon Emigrant Trail, Sly Park Road
• Luther Pass Trail (1854)
• Georgetown/Dagget Pass Trail (1850)
• Johnson Cutoff (1850-51)
• Georgetown Trail (1850)
• Sacramento-Coloma Wagon Road (when?)
• Placer County Road (1852)
• Truckee Route (1844 Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party), Humboldt Sink to Sutter's Fort via Donner Pass, Emigrant Gap
  • I-80 (NV), Henness Pass Road, Dog Valley Road, I-80
• Nevada City Road (1850)
• Henness Pass Turnpike (1860), Nevada City to Jackson Meadows, then joint to Virginia City
• Truckee Turnpike (1860), North San Juan to Jackson Meadows, then joint to Virginia City
• Henness Pass Route (1852)
• Beckwourth Trail (1851)
• Lassen Trail (1848), Goose Lake (Applegate Trail) to Lassen Ranch
  • US 395, SR 299, ??
• Nobles Trail (1852)
• Burnett Cutoff (when?)
• Yreka Trail (1852)
• Applegate Trail (1846), Lassen Meadows (California Trail) to Oregon via High Rock Canyon, Fandango Pass
  • Unnamed roads: Imlay, Antelope Summit, Rabbithole, [which road did it use here?] Sulphur, [which road?] Black Rock Springs, Mud Meadow Reservoir, Fly Canyon, High Rock Canyon, Massacre Ranch, old SR 8A, [which road?] Upper Lake, Fandango Pass Road, US 395, [which road?] Pothole Spring, Steele Swamp Road, not sure at all after that
    • This one has really not survived as a through route; if anything has replaced it, it's the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.