Would you like to drive an emigrant trail from its beginning to one of the places where it ends in California? Would you like to see and vicariously experience some of what the mid-1800s travelers saw and felt? If so, you need the Emigrant Trails West Series of Guidebooks or Driving Guides to the emigrant trails written by Trails West volunteers.
New Guide:
Our newest book “A GUIDE TO THE APPLEGATE TRAIL, FROM GOOSE LAKE TO SOUTHERN OREGON” is finally finished!! This will once again give us a complete set of guides to the Applegate Trail and will allow anyone to follow the complete trail with marker to marker driving directions and GPS coordinates. Click on the Applegate Trail item below for more information and an order form.
THESE GUIDES INCLUDE:
A GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL TO THE HUMBOLDT RIVER
(Second Edition – 2007)
A GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL ALONG THE HUMBOLDT RIVER
(Second Edition – 2007)
A GUIDE TO THE APPLEGATE TRAIL, FROM LASSEN MEADOWS TO GOOSE LAKE
(Third Edition – 2010)
A GUIDE TO THE APPLEGATE TRAIL, FROM GOOSE LAKE TO SOUTHERN OREGON
(2011)
A GUIDE TO THE NOBLES TRAIL
(2008)
HASTINGS CUTOFF & PACK TRAILS DRIVING GUIDE
(2010)
CARSON TRAIL DRIVING GUIDE
(2010)
TRUCKEE TRAIL & NEVADA CITY ROAD DRIVING GUIDE
(2010)
(All Trails West publications are spiral bound so the guides can be folded back
on themselves to enhance their use while traveling in a vehicle.)
To order one or more guides click here for an order form.
Note: Order form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to get it free.
FUTURE VOLUMES
Several additional emigrant trail guides are being written at this time. They cover the Lassen, Truckee and Yreka trails.
EARLIER PUBLICATIONS
In 1975, the Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee, Inc., published the original guide to part of the Emigrant Trail as:
The Overland Emigrant Trail to California
A Guide to Trail Markers Placed in Western Nevada
And the Sierra Mountains in California
by the
Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee, Inc., Reno, Nevada
In 1984, Trails West, Inc., published its first Driving Guide to the
California Trail as:
EMIGRANT TRAILS WEST
A Guide to Trail Markers Placed By Trails West, Inc., Along
The California, Applegate, Lassen, and Nobles’ Emigrant
Trails in Idaho, Nevada, and California