Settlement Routes
- Albany Post Road from Bowling Green (New York City) to Albany, called "Broadway" for long stretches
- Boston Post Road or King's Highway First ride to lay out Post Road January 1, 1673.
- Bozeman Trail from Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming
- California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas to California
- California Trail from Missouri to California.
- Carolina Road from Roanoke, Virginia on the Great Wagon Road through the Piedmont to Augusta, Georgia.
- Cherokee Trail along the Arkansas River from Indian Territory to Wyoming.
- Coushatta-Nacogdoches Trace (or Natchitoches)
- El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
- Farm Highway 12 rods, or 198 feet (60 m) wide highway laid out to Trumbull, Connecticut December 7, 1696.
- Federal Road (Cherokee lands) from Athens, Georgia to Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee
- Federal Road (Creek lands) from Fort Wilkinson (close to Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert (close to Mobile, Alabama)
- Forbes Road established 1759, from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania to Fort Bedford, Pennsylvania
- Gaines Trace in the Mississippi Territory from near Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and on to Fort Stoddert on the lower Tombigbee
- Great Wagon Road (Pennsylvania Wagon Road) from Pennsylvania to Georgia
- Jackson's Military Road from Nashville to New Orleans
- Kittanning Path from Frankstown, Pennsylvania through the Alleghenys to Kittanning, Pennsylvania
- Mormon Trail
- Natchez Trace
- National Road (Cumberland Road)
- Oregon Trail
- Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to southern California
- Old Wire Road, from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Ozark Trail
- Santa Fe Trail
- Siskiyou Trail
- Wilderness Road (Wilderness Trail) scouted by Daniel Boone from the Shenandoah Valley through the Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River
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