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El Camino Real de What? What do you mean National Trail?
National Trails are trails that the U.S. Congress has
said are important to the American people.
There are two kinds of National Trails:
1) Scenic Trails
2) Historic Trails
What are National Trails?
1) Scenic Trails are:
National scenic trails … [are] extended trails … to provide for
maximum outdoor recreation potential and for the conservation and
enjoyment of the nationally significant scenic, historic, natural, or cultural
qualities of the areas through which such trails may pass.
2) Historic Trails are: National historic trails … [are] extended trails which follow as closely as
possible and practicable the original trails or routes of travel of national
historic significance.
What are National Trails?
National Trails System
Examples of Scenic Trails:
1) Appalachian Trail - AKA: The Green Tunnel
- Considered “Grand Daddy”
of National Trails System
- 2,174 miles long
Scenic Trails
Examples of Scenic Trails:
1) Continental Divide - AKA: The King of Trails
- Considered “Most Difficult” to follow
of National Trails System
- 3,100 miles long
Scenic Trails
Examples of Scenic Trails:
1) Pacific Crest Trail - AKA: The PCT
- Considered trail with most
elevation gain
- 2,650 miles long
Scenic Trails
Examples of Historic Trails:
1) Pony Express Trail - Used as a mail route
- In operation for 18 months
during 1860 and 1861
- 1,800 miles long
Historic Trails
Examples of Historic Trails:
1) Trail of Tears - Used to remove
Cherokee and other
tribes from southern
states to Oklahoma
- Removal took place
in 1838 and 1839
- 4,900 miles long
Historic Trails
Examples of Historic Trails:
1) El Camino Real de los Tejas - Used as a route of settlement
for Texas and modern day
Louisiana.
- Period of Historic Significance
1680 to 1845
- 2,580 miles long
Historic Trails
El Camino Real de los Tejas
Connect a series of missions and posts between
Monclova, Mexico and Los Adaes
Primary overland route from the Rio Grande to the Red River Valley in Louisiana
During the Spanish Colonial Period from 1690-1821
El Camino Real de los Tejas
Jesús Treviño Fort y Rancho – Near Laredo, Texas
Interior of Fort
Exterior of Fort
Places to See along El Camino Real
San Antonio Missions and the Alamo – San Antonio, Texas
Mission Concepción
The Alamo
Places to See along El Camino Real
Mission Espíritu Santo y Presidio la Bahía – Goliad, Texas
Presidio la Bahía
Mission Espíritu Santo
Places to See along El Camino Real
Mission Tejas and the Old Stone Fort – East Texas
Casa de Piedra (Old Stone Fort) – Nacogdoches, Texas
Mission Tejas – Mission Tejas State Park, Houston County
Places to See along El Camino Real
River Crossings and Trail Segments – Across Texas
Apache Pass, Milam County Mission Tejas State Park, Houston County
McKinney Falls State Park, Austin Texas
Places to See along El Camino Real
The Highest Places in the United States
Mount Whitney – Highest point in continental U.S.
Mount Whitney – Off of the Pacific Crest Trail
Conclusion:
Where Can Trails Take You?
Most Remote Places in the United States
Continental Divide Trail – New Mexico
Continental Divide Trail - Colorado
Conclusion:
Where Can Trails Take You?
Trails can take you to the past …
Scene along El Camino Real from Main Plaza in San Antonio, Texas
Conclusion:
Where Can Trails Take You?
Trails can take you to the future … Spaceport USA –
El Camino Real
de Tierra Adentro
National Historic Trail,
New Mexico
Conclusion:
Where Can Trails Take You?
Trails can take you wherever you want to go in life…
Steven Gonzales walking with
a girl named María along
El Camino Real de Tierra
Adentro in Chihuahua,
México
Conclusion:
Where Can Trails Take You?
