One stretch from St. Regis to Henderson north of today's Interstate 90 is still in use as Old Mullan Road and Mullan Gulch Road. From the Taft area, it crossed the Bitterroot Range into Idaho over St. Regis Pass (named Sohon Pass by John Mullan) () at , about west-southwest of Lookout Pass, where I-90 crosses the state line. From the middle of the Idaho crossing, the road deviates from present-day major roads. The Mullan Road went southwesterly in Idaho to pass south of Lake Coeur d'Alene The road then passed into Washington some distance south of Spokane From there, the Mullan Road passed through the Palouse country and then the scablands of eastern Washington. It passed through Benge, that section of the road was completed May 22, 1861; the wagon ruts were still visible in 2008, just northeast of town at the site of the First Benge School. South of Benge, there is a stretch of the former road still labeled 'Mullan Road.' This gravel section travels southwesterly until it meets State Route 26 near Washtucna. The portion of Mullan Road south of SR 26 in Washington, which follows the course of the Palouse River as it descends to the Snake River, has been reverted to grazing and is not accessible to the public. After crossing the Snake River near the confluence with the Palouse River, the Mullan Road continues south along the Fort Walla Walla Fort Colville Military Road to its terminus at Fort Walla Walla near Walla Walla. References Further reading External links Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting Lieut. Mullan's report, 1861 Essay on Mullan Road at historylink.org, by Priscilla Long, February 16, 2003 Blazing the Mullan Road by Mineral County, Montana Jon Axline, "Mullan's Point of Rocks", Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Montana Historical Society), Winter 1999 "Who was Mullan? Answers are many", ruralnorthwest.com, originally in Coeur d'Alene Press, 1963 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation: Historic trails and roads in Washington (state) Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Historic American Engineering Record in Montana Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks History of Missoula, Montana National Register of Historic Places in Kootenai County, Idaho Roads on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Cascade County, Montana National Register of Historic Places in Benewah County, Idaho 1860