Emigrant Trail
Road of stubborn seekers of 1849 California gold fields and better life. Bringing the old, infant, the yet unborn and all worldly goods, family wagons entered Texas at Preston, on Red River, to go southwest via springs (including some now in Monahans Sandhills Park) to Emigrants' Crossing on the Pecos, then upriver and west through Guadalupe Pass to El Paso. Old wagon parts by the trail tell of some disasters. Capt. R. B. Marcy in 1849 and Capt. John Pope in 1854 made Army surveys of the trail. It passed near this spot.
31.9129° N, 102.3939° W
Where to Find It
From Hwy 80 in Odessa, take US 385 North about 4.6 miles.
Nearby Markers
- 1.9 mi S El Paso Natural Gas Company's First Compressor Transmission Engine Odessa
- 1.9 mi S The Cable Tool Rig Odessa
- 2 mi SE Prairie Dog Odessa
- 2.1 mi S Permian Basin Odessa
- 3 mi NW Barrow Ranch House Odessa
- 3.3 mi S Site of Odessa College Odessa