On Valley of Fire Highway (State Highway 169) 2.3 miles west of Northshore Road (State Highway 167), on the left when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
Las Vegans claimed to be the originators of this all-weather route between Los Angels and Salt Lake City. From the beginning, the Arrowhead Trail was a "grass roots" effort including promotion by various chambers of commerce and volunteer . . . — — Map (db m297784) HM
On Nevada Route 169 at milepost 21, on the right when traveling south.
Rich in prehistoric, pueblo-type culture, and noted by the explorer Jedediah Smith in 1826, Moapa Valley is crossed by the Old Spanish Trail.
In 1865 Brigham Young sent 75 families to settle the area, to grow cotton for the people of Utah, and . . . — — Map (db m46780) HM
On North Moapa Valley Boulevard (State Highway 169) south of Las Vegas Freeway (Interstate 15), on the right when traveling south.
Early Spanish traders named the fifty-five miles separating Las Vegas and the Muddy River the Jornada del Meuerto (Journey of the The Dead Man). This longest stretch without water along the Old Spanish Trail was littered with skeletons of animals . . . — — Map (db m298056) HM
In 1869 Heleman Pratt, Wm. D. Kartchner and other L.D.S. Church members came to Overton; built adobe homes; planted vineyards and crops. In 1871 double taxation forced an exodus from Muddy Valley. Local investors acquired the land, resold to . . . — — Map (db m241359) HM
Near South Pioneer Road (State Highway 169), on the right when traveling north.
Existing today as a 30-mile series of adobe ruins, this “Lost City” was once the home of an ancient Anasazi Indian civilization. Beginning with the basketmakers (300 B.C.-A.D.700) & followed by the Pueblos (A.D.700-1150) this valley was . . . — — Map (db m145957) HM
