- Auto trail
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The system of auto trails was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in the early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on telephone poles, the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile.
Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway, maintained by the Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were the work of fly-by-night promoters, to the point that anyone with enough paint and the will to do so could set up a trail; trails were not usually linked to road improvements, though counties and states often prioritized road improvements because they were on trails.
In the mid-to-late 1920s, the auto trails were essentially replaced in the United States with the system of numbered U.S. Highways. Similar numbering schemes had begun to be implemented in the Canadian provinces as well.
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List of auto trails
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Name North or east end South or west end U.S. Highways (approximate, based on 1926 plan and later additions) Notes Albert Pike Highway Hot Springs, AR Colorado Springs, CO US 270, US 64, US 183, US 154, US 50, US 85 Arrowhead Trail Salt Lake City, UT Los Angeles, CA US 91 Atlantic Highway Calais, ME Miami, FL US 1, US 25, US 17, US 1 Atlantic-Pacific Highway New York, NY Los Angeles, CA US 1, US 211, US 15, US 33, US 60, US 52, US 460, US 50, US 54, US 70, US 60 Atlantic Yellowstone Pacific Highway Chicago, IL Sioux Falls, SD US 20, US 218, US 18 Bankhead Highway Washington, DC San Diego, CA US 1, US 15, US 70, US 170, US 29, US 78, US 70, US 67, US 80 Bee Line Highway Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA Ben Hur Highway St. Louis, MO Fort Dodge, IA Black and Yellow Trail Chicago, IL Yellowstone National Park US 41, US 16, US 14, US 16, US 20 Blackhawk Highway Dixon, IL Beloit, WI California-Banff Bee Line Cannon Ball Route Chicago, IL Hannibal, MO Capital Route Omaha, NE Austin, TX Chicago, Kansas City and Gulf Highway Chicago, IL Galveston, TX Colorado to Gulf Highway Denver, CO Galveston, TX and Brownsville, TX US 85, US 385, US 370, US 81, US 181 Columbia River Highway Pendleton, OR Portland, OR US 30 Cooley Highway Grand Rapids, MN Sisseton, SD Cornhusker Highway Sioux City, IA Oklahoma City, OK Custer Battlefield Highway Omaha, NE Glacier National Park US 75, US 16, US 116, US 87E, US 87 Dallas-Canadian-Denver Highway Boulder, CO Galveston, TX US 85, US 50, US 83, US 70, US 77 Detroit-Lincoln-Denver Highway Detroit, MI Denver, CO US 12, US 32, US 38 Dixie Highway Chicago, IL and Sault Ste. Marie, MI Miami, FL IL 1, US 136, US 31, IN 37, US 150, US 31W Dixie Bee Line Chicago, IL Nashville, TN US 41, US 241 Dixie Overland Highway Savannah, GA San Diego, CA US 80, US 84, US 380, US 366, US 80 Evergreen National Highway Victoria, BC El Paso, TX US 99, US 10, US 97, US 410, US 95, US 30, US 30N, US 91, US 95, US 66 Egyptian Trail Chicago, IL Cairo, IL Florida Short Route George Washington National Highway Savannah, GA Seattle, WA Geysers-to-Glaciers Highway Glacier National Park Yellowstone National Park Glacier to Gulf Motorway Calgary, AB Tampico, Mexico Glacier Trail Seattle, WA Jacksonville, FL Grant Highway Chicago, IL Portland, OR Great White Way Davenport, IA Council Bluffs, IA International Peace Highway Quebec, QC and Rouses Point, NY Laredo, TX and Mexico City, Mexico Jackson Highway Chicago, IL New Orleans, LA US 152, US 52, US 31, US 168, US 68, US 31, US 43, US 45, US 11 Jefferson Highway Winnipeg, MB New Orleans, LA US 59, US 2, US 71, US 10N, US 10, US 65, US 69, US 71/US 73E, US 73, US 75, US 69, US 67, US 271, US 80, US 171, US 71, US 61 Jefferson Davis National Highway Washington, DC San Francisco, CA US 1, US 278, US 29, US 80, US 43, US 90, US 96, US 277, US 90 John Anderson Highway King of Trails Winnipeg, MB Galveston, TX and Brownsville, TX US 75/US 81, US 75/US 77, US 75, US 73, US 73E, US 50, US 73W, US 75, US 77, US 81, US 181, US 96 Kings Transcontinental Highway Ottawa Toronto Lackawanna Trail Binghamton, NY Delaware, NJ Lakes to Gulf Highway Duluth, MN Galveston, TX Lakes-to-Sea Highway Atlantic City, NJ Erie, PA US 30, US 120, US 22, US 322, US 19 Lee Highway New York, NY San Francisco, CA US 1, US 211, US 11, US 72, US 70, US 366, US 80, US 180, US 80, US 101 Lewis and Clark Highway Missoula, MT Lewiston, ID Liberty Highway Lincoln Highway New York, NY San Francisco, CA US 1, US 30, US 40, US 93, US 50, US 99, US 48 Logan-Lee Highway Rock Island, IL Paducah, KY Lone Star Route Chicago, IL Lake Charles, LA (earlier Brownsville, TX) US 66, US 67, US 63, US 165 Lone Star Trail St. Augustine, FL Los Angeles, CA US 1, US 90, US 84, US 67, US 290, US 80 Magnolia Route Meridian Highway Winnipeg, MB Mexico City, Mexico US 81 Mississippi River Scenic Highway Winnipeg, MB and Port Arthur, ON Fort Myers, FL and Port Arthur, TX US 75, US 2, US 71, US 10N, US 10, US 61, US 55, US 61, US 90; US 49E, US 49, US 98, US 90, US 19, US 41 Mississippi Valley Highway Ely, MN Gulfport, MS (earlier New Orleans, LA) US 53, US 61, US 55, US 161, US 67, US 51, US 45, US 11, US 49 Earlier known as the Burlington Way National Old Trails Road Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD Los Angeles, CA US 240/US 40, US 40, US 50N, US 50, US 350, US 85, US 70, US 66 National Park-to-Park Highway Loop connecting National Parks US 99, US 48, US 40, US 99E, US 99, US 10, US 195, US 95, US 2, US 87, US 87W, US 20, US 185, US 85, US 50, US 285, US 450, US 550, US 64, US 666, US 66 National Parks Highway Boston, MA and New York, NY Seattle, WA Also known as the Northwest Trail National Roosevelt Midland Trail Washington, DC and Newport News, VA (earlier Oyster Bay, NY) Los Angeles, CA US 60, US 150, US 50, US 40, US 40N, US 40, US 40S, US 50, US 6 National White Way New Santa Fe Trail Kansas City, Mo. Los Angeles US 50, US 350, US 85, US 66 Old Oregon Trail Independence, MO Seaside, OR and Olympia, WA US 40, US 30, US 26, US 20, US 87E, US 30N, US 30 Old Spanish Trail St. Augustine, FL San Diego, CA US 1, US 90, US 80 Ozark Trails Kansas City, MO, Hannibal, MO, St. Louis, MO, and Memphis, TN Denver, CO, Las Vegas, NM, and El Paso, TX Pacific Highway Vancouver, BC San Diego, CA US 99, US 40, US 101 Pershing Way Winnipeg, MB New Orleans, LA Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway New York, NY Los Angeles, CA (earlier San Francisco, CA) US 22, US 250, US 36, US 136, US 36, US 40N, US 40S, US 50, US 91 Also known as the Pershing Transport Route Puget Sound-to-Gulf Highway Red Ball Route River-to-River Road Davenport, IA Council Bluffs, IA Southern National Highway Southwest Trail Chicago, IL El Paso, TX US 32, US 65, US 50S, US 81, US 160, US 281, US 60, US 366 Susquehanna Trail Buffalo, NY Washington, DC US 20, US 15, US 111/US 240 Theodore Roosevelt International Highway Portland, ME Portland, OR US 302, US 2, US 11, US 104, US 23, US 2, US 95, US 195, US 295, US 410, US 30 Three C Highway Cleveland, OH Cincinnati, OH US 42 Victory Highway New York, NY San Francisco, CA US 1, US 40, US 40S, US 83, US 40N, US 40 White River Trail Springfield, MO Ponca City, OK White-way 7 Highway Chicago, IL Omaha, NE US 32 In Iowa, created from segments of the River to River Road from Davenport to Redfield, and the Great White Way from Dexter to Council Bluffs. William Penn Highway US 22 Yellowstone Highway Denver, CO Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone Trail Plymouth, MA Seattle, WA US 20, US 30, US 41, US 110, US 10, US 212, US 12, US 10, US 195, US 295, US 410, US 97, US 10 See also
- List of U.S. Routes
- U.S. Highway association
References
- American Automobile Association, Highways Green Book, 1922, pp. 418-420
- Clason Map Company, Midget Map of the Transcontinental Trails of the United States, 1923
- Automobile Club of America and National Highways Association, United States Touring Map, 1924
- Clason Map Company, Touring Atlas of the United States, 1925
- Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas, 1926, accessed via the Broer Map Library
External links
Categories:- Auto trails in the United States
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