Throughout the Pacific states, trails and routes honed by its earliest explorers and settlers continue to be important links to spectacular sights, places of historic significance and popular vacation destinations. These early pathways served many masters who took claim on land, chartered overland routes and took chanced opportunity for new lives and fortunes.

California Missions Trail was one of the region’s earliest highways, established at a time when Alta California was under Spanish rule. Franciscan Father Junipero Serra lead an expedition into California, building a chain of missions that also served as a supply route to northern military Presidios and as bases for Spanish col- onization.

Twenty-one missions were built between 1769 and 1823 along a 600-mile route from San Diego to Sonoma. Called El Camino Real, or Royal Road, the padres marked the trail by sprinkling mustard seeds and creating a path of bright yellow flowers. After California statehood, the road became a busy stage coach route and later bronze mission bells were placed on the now modern highways to indicate the location of the original El Camino Real path.

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