Lincoln Highway
Begun in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was the United States first transcontinental automobile highway. It ran from San Francisco, California in the west to New York City, New York in the east. When the numbered highway system replaced the old National Auto Trail system in the late 1920s, most of the old Lincoln Highway became U.S. Highway 30.
Long after most other named highways have vanished by the wayside, markers still exist that delineate the route of the Lincoln Highway.
A number of quaint "Official Road Guides" to the Lincoln Highway were published by the Lincoln Highway Association.
Road trip
Over the years that it operated the route of the Lincoln Highway changed in many places as improvements were made and modern roads rarely follow it exactly but it can be roughly approximated by the following modern routes:
- U.S. Highway 1 (in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania)
- U.S. Highway 30 (west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and east of Grand Island, Nebraska)
- Interstate 80 (west of Grand Island and east of Salt Lake City)
- Utah 199 over Johnson's Pass (west of Tooele, Utah and east of Skull Valley Road)
- Dirt road through the Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge (west of Skull Valley Road through Ibapah, Utah and east of U.S. Highway 93)
- U.S. Highway 93 (south of dirt road and north of Ely, Nevada)
- U.S. Highway 50 (west of Ely and east of Sacramento, California)
- California 99 (south of Sacramento and north of Manteca, California)
- California 120 to Interstate 205 (east of Manteca and through Tracy, California)
- Interstate 580 (west of Tracy and south of Oakland, California)
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