Approximate routes of the Humboldt Wagon Road (red) in California, and connecting roads to Silver City, Idaho and Star City, Nevada (blue)
The Humboldt Wagon Road, or the Humboldt Road, was a freight wagon road in northern California. Constructed in the 1860s, it connected Chico, near the Sacramento River, with Susanville, near Honey Lake, east of the Sierra Nevada crest. From there, extensions continued to the Humboldt silver mines in Nevada and the Owyhee Mines near Silver City, Idaho.[1] The road was surveyed and financed by prominent settler John Bidwell and carried passengers, mail, and freight between logging and ranching communities of northeastern California. It also contributed to the settlement of the region and the displacement of the native Maidu population. Portions of the Humboldt Road are now followed by California State Route 32 and California State Route 36.
^Leicester, Marti; Nopel, David (2012). The Humboldt Wagon Road. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7385-7643-5.
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to 1867. In 1863-64, Bidwell and other local financiers built the HumboldtWagonRoad connecting Chico to the mining districts of Nevada. Around this time...
inside Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is the only public access to the Pacific Ocean coastline of the Lost Coast. It was built as a wagonroad in the...
in what is now Nevada to the Humboldt River valley near today's Wells, Nevada. They blazed a wagon trail down the Humboldt River Valley and across Forty...
(450 km) shorter than the "standard" Humboldt River California trail route. The Army improved the trail for use by wagons and stagecoaches in 1859 and 1860...
in each county are given in the county column. California Roads portal HumboldtWagonRoad California Department of Transportation. "State Truck Route...
in each county are given in the county column. California Roads portal HumboldtWagonRoad California Department of Transportation. "State Truck Route...
The Humboldt River is an extensive river drainage system located in north-central Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters...
and the adjacent Carson Sink represent a small portion of the lake bed. Humboldt Lake is to the valley's northeast. Pyramid Lake is west. Walker Lake is...
encountered while traveling along the Humboldt River in present-day Nevada, resulted in the loss of many cattle and wagons, and divisions soon formed within...
Emigrant Trail, also known as the Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake WagonRoad, is a trail in California that was used by emigrant parties from the east...
Sisters. Thompson's group with wagons followed Hensley's pack trail back to Salt Lake City—converting it into a passable wagonroad. Thompson's company traveled...
fuel. During the Mexican–American War, the wagon to California road known as Cooke's WagonRoad, or Sonora Road, was built across Nuevo Mexico, Sonora and...
possible along the Humboldt River. October 7, 1846: Louis Keseberg turns Mr. Hardkoop, an elderly Belgian traveling with him, out of his wagon to lighten the...
Hastings Longtripp: A Hastings Cutoff Trail Guide from Donner Spring to the Humboldt River. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Crossroads, Oregon-California Trails Association...
"standard" California Trail route along the Humboldt River. The Army then improved the trail and springs for use by wagons and stagecoaches in 1859 and 1860. When...
Thousand Springs to the Humboldt River. From the junction of the Humboldt near today's Wells, Nevada they could follow the Humboldt west to the Sierra Nevada...
and Clark National Forest. Additional scenes were shot on locations in Humboldt County, California. Filming was completed in the fall of 1996, with a 1997...
Mountains. In 1843 settlers cut a wagonroad over these mountains making them passable for the first time to wagons. The trail went to the Whitman Mission...
River that was in Marsh's description; now called the Humboldt River, it ends in the Humboldt Sink, an intermittent dry lake bed and by October 15, they...
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