Would you like to drive an emigrant trail from its beginning to end? Would you like to see and vicariously experience some of what the mid-1800’s 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. These guides will allow almost anyone with a modern SUV to explore many scenic roads both on and off pavement. Many families have been enjoying these guides for years and it’s a great way to spend a day or more driving through some beautiful country.
A list of our guides is below and a map showing the approximate trail locations is located here.
Guide Updates:
When we at Trails West learn of a serious error in one of our Guides or some kind of material change in the area through which the trails pass, we will keep you informed by making Guide Updates available. See the bottom of this page for updates.
If you are using one of our guides out in the field and find an error, please let us know about it. That way we can keep on top of things.
Shipping:
Shipping is free to the U.S. If you want to ship out of the Country, contact us at: TWinfo(at)emigranttrailswest.org
OUR GUIDES INCLUDE:
FULL SIZE GUIDES
A GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL TO THE HUMBOLDT RIVER
A GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL ALONG THE HUMBOLDT RIVER
A GUIDE TO THE APPLEGATE TRAIL, FROM LASSEN MEADOWS TO GOOSE LAKE
A GUIDE TO THE APPLEGATE TRAIL, FROM GOOSE LAKE TO SOUTHERN OREGON
A GUIDE TO THE LASSEN TRAIL & BURNETT CUTOFF
A GUIDE TO THE NOBLES TRAIL
A GUIDE TO THE YREKA TRAIL
DRIVING GUIDES
HASTINGS CUTOFF DRIVING GUIDE
CARSON TRAIL DRIVING GUIDE
TRUCKEE TRAIL & NEVADA CITY ROAD DRIVING GUIDE
BECKWOURTH TRAIL DRIVING GUIDE
JOHNSON CUTOFF & LUTHER PASS TRAIL DRIVING GUIDE
CENTRAL OVERLAND TRAIL UTAH & NEVADA DRIVING GUIDE
HENNESS PASS ROAD DRIVING GUIDE
APPLEGATE TRAIL DRIVING GUIDE
WALKER RIVER-SONORA TRAIL
(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.)
Commercial vendors wishing to order six or more copies, contact us at TWinfo(at)emigranttrailswest.org
for discount pricing.
We usually ship orders twice a week via USPS media mail. But, we are a totally volunteer organization and are occasionally out on the trail or doing other things. Therefore please allow 7 to 14 days for your guide(s) to arrive.
If ordering by check, this will add a week or two to your delivery date.
To order one or more guides, go to each guides page and click on the add to cart button to pay with credit card or by PayPal. If you would rather pay by personal check, use the order form below. PayPal accepts credit cards and does not require a PayPal account.
BOOK ORDER FORM
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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
These earlier publications are now out of print.
GUIDE UPDATES:
Hastings Cutoff & Pack Trails Driving Guide (2nd Edition)
Updates here
A Guide To The California Trail, To The Humboldt River
Updates here
A Guide To The California Trail, Along The Humboldt River (3rd & 4th Editions)
Updates here
Carson Trail & Grizzly Flat Road Driving Guide (2020)
Updates here
A Guide To The Nobles Trail, (2008)
Updates here
A Guide To The Applegate Trail
From Goose Lake To Southern Oregon (2011)
Updates here
A Guide To The Applegate Trail
From Lassen Meadows To Goose Lake (Fourth Edition)
Updates here
Truckee Trail & Nevada City Road Driving Guide (2019)
Updates here
Johnson Cutoff & Luther Pass Trail (2015)
Updates here
Central Overland Trail Driving Guide (2016)
Updates here
Henness Pass Road Driving Guide (2016)
Updates here
Beckwourth Trail Driving Guide (2015 & 2018)
Updates here
A Guide To The Lassen Trail And Burnett Cutoff (2015)
Updates here
A Guide To The Yreka Trail (2019)
Updates here