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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Famous quotes containing the word route:
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)