Shellrock Mt. wagon road ?
- lunatick47
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Shellrock Mt. wagon road ?
Does anyone know if the old wagon road continues east from Shellrock Mt, and how to find it?
- Don Nelsen
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Re: Shellrock Mt. wagon road ?
It does, but later road grades for powerlines and logging make it hard to figure out just exactly where it was. I've tracked just about everything I could discern might have been an old road and here is a map showing the obvious wagon road (the one finished in 1876):
Here is another map showing what I think is the continuation to the east in solid blue:
Both maps derived from Garmin 60CSx tracks.
I could be wrong, but the second map shows what appears to me to be the oldest of the grades and therefore the original track of the first wagon road.
dn
Here is another map showing what I think is the continuation to the east in solid blue:
Both maps derived from Garmin 60CSx tracks.
I could be wrong, but the second map shows what appears to me to be the oldest of the grades and therefore the original track of the first wagon road.
dn
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- lunatick47
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Re: Shellrock Mt. wagon road ?
Don,
thanks for the reply. I was up on the powerline in the old wagon road historical area and followed an old roadbed west for a bit then it turned south and followed Lindsey Creek uphill high above the creek till I ran out of time. I plan on going back up there before winter. Thanks again for the reply & the maps. Joe.
thanks for the reply. I was up on the powerline in the old wagon road historical area and followed an old roadbed west for a bit then it turned south and followed Lindsey Creek uphill high above the creek till I ran out of time. I plan on going back up there before winter. Thanks again for the reply & the maps. Joe.