There are many historic trails and roads in the United States which were important to the settlement and development of the United States including those used by American Indians. The lists below include only those routes in use prior to the creation of the American Highway System in 1926. Many more local routes are discussed at entries for the relevant town. Settlement routes Albany Post Road, in use by 1642, from Bowling Green (New York City) to Albany, called "Broadway" for long stretches 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 (California) El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro El Camino Viejo Farm Highway completed 1696, from Boston Post Road Stratford, Connecticut, to Nichols, Connecticut. 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 Memphis to Little Rock Road Mormon Trail Mullan Road from Fort Benton, Montana, to Walla Walla, Washington 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 San Antonio-El Paso Road Santa Fe Trail Siskiyou Trail Southern Emigrant Trail Southwest Trail, from St. Louis, Missouri, to Texarkana, Texas Stockton - Los Angeles Road Territorial Road of Michigan, from Detroit west to St. Joseph and Lake Michigan Wilderness Road (Wilderness Trail) scouted by Daniel Boone from the Shenandoah Valley through the Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River Indian routes Catawba Path Coushatta Trace Coushatta-Nacogdoches Trace Great Warrior Road Natchitoches Trace, from Missouri River's mouth to Natchitoches, Louisiana Nemacolin's Path St. Joseph Indian Trail, Michigan Tuscarora Path Kittanning Path from Frankstown, Pennsylvania, through