Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
Part of the U.S. National Trails System
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 Old Spanish Trail is a historic trade route that connected the Nuevo México settlements of Santa Fe with those of Los Angeles and the rest of Alta California. Approximately 700 mi (1,100 km) long, the trail ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons. It is considered one of the most arduous of all trade routes ever established in the United States. Explored, in part, by Spanish explorers as early as the late 16th century, the trail was extensively used by traders with pack trains from about 1830 until the mid-1850s. The area was part of Mexico from Mexican independence in 1821 to the Mexican Cession to the United States in 1848.
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This page is built from Wikipedia article “Old Spanish Trail (trade route)”. Source record: wikipedia_trails#191. 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.