​Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail
​Gregg Route, 1840

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Marker Text: ​Southwest of this marker are dim traces of overland trail to connect river ports of Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ark. with Santa Fe, a trade and travel center since 1609. This road was pioneered by Josiah Gregg, a Santa Fe trader who first passed this point on March 15, 1840. Many goldseekers later used his route--from the summer of 1849, when worldwide "fever" drew them to California.
​       The Gregg Route, in the days before barbed wire, regularly was traveled by military parties, hunters, and traders. (1964)

Marker No: 2018

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.215549, -101.741837

Location: ​From Amarillo, take SH 136 about 12 miles northeast (Marker is just south of junction of SH 136 and Route 293).