Unlike the Santa Fe or Oregon Trails, you won’t find any trail ruts on the Old Spanish Trail. For that matter, it’s even hard to find tapas restaurants.
Historian Rod Miller points out that the trail isn’t old, and isn’t Spanish, and LeRoy R. and Anne W. Hafen wrote in Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles: “The Old Spanish Trail was the longest, crookedest, most arduous pack mule route in the history of America.”
Even today, the Old Spanish Trail is arduous (especiall
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