Honeymoon Trail

There were many trails that crossed Arizona in the early days including the Butterfield Overland Stage, the Gila Trail and the Beale Camel Road and most of them crossed east to west. One that isn’t as well-known is the trail that early Mormon pioneers followed out of Utah starting in the 1870’s. It was called the Hamblin Trail for Jacob Hamblin, who was a kind of Latter Day Saint Daniel Boone. The trail led across the Arizona Strip, up and over the Kaibab Plateau and over to the Little Co