Santa Fe Trail
19th-century route through central North America between Franklin, MO, and Santa Fe, NM
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 Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, which at that time was a provincial capital of Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell and Joseph R. Walker, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, the trail served as a vital commercial highway until 1880, when the railroad arrived in Santa Fe. Santa Fe was near the end of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro which carried trade from Mexico City. The trail was later incorporated into parts of the National Old Trails Road and U.S. Route 66.
Coordinates
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Source
This page is built from Wikipedia article “Santa Fe Trail”. Source record: wikipedia_trails#194. 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.