Trail of the Pioneers Marker

Hinkley Rd at Jiggs Rd.
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The "Trails of the Pioneers" Historic Marker is located less than a half mile from the current National Trails Highway on Hinkley Rd. . This intersection looks pretty desolate, and yet it is where, or close to where, several pioneer trails intersected over the years.

The Mojave Indian Trail -1776,
American Trapper - 1826,
Old Spanish Trail - 1829,
Salt Lake Road - 1848,
Military Road - 1857,
National Old Trails Road - 1907
Route 66 in 1927

Today the intersection is signed as Hinckley Road at Jiggs Road.

Hinkley Rd is about 1.5 miles or so past the Dunes Motel, turn right on Hinkley and go about a half mile or a bit less, cross the railroad tracks and go a couple hundred feet to the intersection..

Hinkley Rd at Route 66 GPS: 34.830373, -117.180260
Historic Marker GPS: 34.834473, -117.186454

It's a pretty desolate looking intersection from this view. That's Hinkley Road going across the railroad tracks heading towards National Trails Highway.

Pictures taken Spring 2013