California – Oregon Trail / California – Oregon Road
About 60 feet above this marker a line of rocks marks the old Trappers and Emigrants Trail from Trinity River to Scott Valley. This route may have been used as early as 1829 by Hudson’s Bay trappers and others prior to the building of this road in 1860. This marker also marks six miles of original road between the American House at the mouth of Tangle Blue Creek and Scott Mountain Summit. This road linked San Francisco and Portland until the railroad through the Sacramento River Canyon was completed in 1888. The last stage ran this route in 1924.
Marker is on Scott Mountain Road (Route 3 at milepost 83.3), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
