California Trail
Historic migration route in the western United States
Length: not available from the sources used here; the article and the list do not state a length in the form this site publishes.
From the Wikipedia article
The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 1,600 mi (2,600 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. After it was established, the first half of the California Trail followed the same corridor of networked river valley trails as the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail, namely the valleys of the Platte, North Platte, and Sweetwater rivers to Wyoming. The trail has several splits and cutoffs for alternative routes around major landforms and to different destinations, with a combined length of over 5,000 mi (8,000 km).
Coordinates
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Source
This page is built from Wikipedia article “California Trail”. Source record: wikipedia_trails#185. Wikipedia data fetched 2026-10-03. Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Listed in: List of hiking trails in the United States.