Arrowhead Trail (auto trail)
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| Length | 853.4 mi (1,373.4 km)
Length of the original route along the National Old Trails Road and north through Searchlight, NV.
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| History | Arrowhead Trails Association formed in 1916, and incorporated in California on 7 December 1916. |
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| South end | Los Angeles, CA |
| North end | Salt Lake City, UT |
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| States | California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah |
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| Official name | Arrowhead Trail (1914-1924) |
| Reference no. | 168 |
| Official name | Arrowhead Trail - Henderson |
| Reference no. | 197 |
The Arrowhead Trail or Arrowhead Highway was the first all-weather road in the Western United States that connected Los Angeles, California to Salt Lake City, Utah by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Built primarily during the auto trails period of the 1910s, prior to the establishment of the U.S. numbered highway system, the road was replaced in 1926 by U.S. Route 91 (US 91)and subsequently Interstate 15 (I‑15). Small portions of the route in California and Las Vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard, are sometimes still referred to by the name, or as Arrow Highway.
Starting in 1915, Charles H. Bigelow drove the entire route many times to generate publicity for the road.
The Arrowhead Trail initially took a longer route via present U.S. Route 95 and former U.S. Route 66 between Las Vegas and Needles, California, as the more direct Old Spanish Trail was in very poor condition. The "Silver Lake cutoff", which would save about 90 miles (145 km), was proposed by 1920, and completed in 1925 as an oiled road by San Bernardino County.
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