In the last post I asked about the national headquarters of the various auto trail associations. After a lot of looking at maps, books, and doing searches,...
I was pleased to meet a number of you at the Route 66 Festival in Clinton, Oklahoma. On the way out, we took in the usual 66 sites (including Harley and...
Actually, I'm up for that if you mean "road trip". Although hot, it would have to be in summer (or the last two weeks in December) for me, unless it's fairly...
December sounds good; nice and cool. During my work with TXDOT, I drove the US 290 corridor, using old control logbook entries to identify the original...
Steve, The HQ location for a number of trail associations changed over the years. The Old Spanish Trail started in Mobile and then shifted to San Antonio. If...
I don't know much about the Borderland Highway except that it is a pretty old trail and generally followed 80. I haven't seen anything on its route. I know a...
The Borderland is one of the earliest auto trails to come out of the Southwest. OST pathfinder, Harry Locke, mapped it in c.1912. The highway became the...
Every transcontinental highway contains a gateway, a subtle to not- so-subtle transition transporting a traveler from one geography to another. Some highways...
The early Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association was headquartered in Los Angeles at the Hollenbeck Hotel. I believe the Redlands Chamber of Commerce served as the...
Look what this guy wrote in the year 1999, about our present day wars with Iraq, about the World Trade Center bombings, and about what our every day life...
The author, if they are receiving emails from this forum should realize that posts unrelated to the subject matter of the forum are not really welcome. There...
I'm compiling a complete list of auto trails based on maps I have, images sent to me, and online sources. I will be adding to it as I get more primary source...
Parsa, WOW!!! What a GREAT list you have put together. Those of us involved in old roads are going to find this list an invaluable resource. Take care and see...
I'm going to be doing a three day scouting trip to the area around Yuma, AZ and west toward Jacumba along old US 80 on the days after Thanksgiving. One area I...
Hello folks, I added a new page to my web site. It's the intro page for the Dixie Overland Highway auto trail. I'm still working on it, but it's better to have...
US 395 has been named an historic state highway in California. Here are two news articles (Yahoo will probably have it's usual trouble with the URLs...) ...
I've added several more states and cities to the City Maps section of my web site, including a few more San Diego maps. I have many more I can add, but there's...
After an extended leave of absence (since Dec. 2007), we're back on the web. During the hiatus we made a few trips on the Old Spanish Trail, Abo Pass, El...
This parkway actually follows the old alignment of the OST, and in our opinion, is still scenic. JWM Not-so-Scenic Parkway fading J. Earle Bowden News Journal...
Hi John, Steve Varner here.... I'm curious that you said that you were still wondering about the Myndus to Deming route. I thought you were the person who...
This festival in Crestview, Florida is the only event of its kind that incorporates the Old Spanish Trail—the highway—as part of its history. Earlier this...
Hi Steve, I did, but have recently come across archival documentation of a very early 1912-14 county/state road between Myndus and Deming that served as a...
Hi guys, Being the new kid on the block you folks got my curiosity up concerning the OST East from Deming. To spice the discussion up, I have a late 1920's...
I have the book Tales of Pathfinder by A.L. Westgard. He's the "Pathfinder" who Westgard Pass is named after in the Sierras. There are many references to him...
"Tales of a Pathfinder" is a wonderful book, but only gives a glimpse of the career of the great automobile pathfinder, A. L. Westgard. Though he often doesn't...
Hello Jim, Yes, the 1917, 1919 and 1923 New Mexico State Highway Department and several commercial maps show this route, but by the late-1920s, the lower route...
FYI... The Ninth Annual Great U.S. 50 Yard Sale has been set for May 16-18. As featured in various national media, this event helps bring attention to our...
On the topic of U.S. 50, I've placed a postcard of Route 50 North on the front of this listserv. The short-lived U.S. 50 North followed the Old Santa Fe Trail,...
