Overland Route or Overland Trail refers to the following travel routes:
- The Overland Trail and stage line in Colorado and Wyoming
- Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), a passenger rail line from Chicago to Oakland, California
- First Transcontinental Railroad from which the above passenger rail line was based.
- The Overland Route (Australia), a shipping route via the Suez Canal
- Overland Trail (Yukon), a Klondike Gold Rush-era road in the Yukon
- Central Overland Route a stagecoach line through Utah and Nevada
- Butterfield Overland Mail a stagecoach line between Tennessee or Missouri and California
Overland Trail is also a generic term for a number of wagon trails during the 19th century in the western United States:
- Oregon Trail
- California Trail
- Mormon Trail
- Santa Fe Trail
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