Path of Least Resistance - Petrified Forest, AZ
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N 35° 03.998 W 109° 47.833
12S E 609669 N 3881094
One of many historical markers at Petrified Forest National Park.
Waymark Code: WM1AM81
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2024
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The plaque says, "As a traveler to this spot, you are in good company. The Painted Desert offers a rich story of travelers, traders, and migrants passing near this location through the centuries. This natural travel corridor skirts the Rocky. Mountains and other adverse terrain providing a direct route between the eastern and western United States. For over 13,000 years people, including Ice Age hunters; Spanish explorers, military and railroad expeditions; and automobile drivers favored this path of least resistance.
Lt. Amiel Whipple, for whom this point is named, passed this way in 1853 while surveying a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Since then, this corridor has been part of the Beale Wagon Road (established 1857), the "Overland Mail/Star Route" (1876), a transcontinental railroad (1883 with sections still in operation), the National Old Trails Highway (1912), Route 66 (1926), and is presently crossed by Interstate 40 (1958)."
Marker Name: Path of Least Resistance
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Apache
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
NPS
Year placed: Unknown
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