Operating Hours & Seasons Varies from site to site. Contact individual site and segment owners or managers for more information.
The administering office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Closed holidays and weekends.
Local Partners & Information Resources
See Virtual Visitor Center Segments of the national trail available to the public Getting There Plane Traveler can access trail heads by flying commercial carriers to San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles in California or to Tucson in Arizona. Car Recently, the California portions of the trail have been marked for for those traveling the trail by highway. The Arizona segments will be marked as well in the next few months. You can obtain a roadguide by contacting the park office. General guidebooks for national trails: Miller, Arthur P. and Marjorie. Trails Across America. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado. 1996. Cordes, Kathleen Ann. America's National Historic Trails. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1999 Getting Around Trail sites and segments are most easily accessible by car, bicycle, or on foot. Commercial busses could be used to follow most of the auto tour route and would provide stops near many of the trail sites in urban areas. The trail route may be followed rather closely on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Sunset Limited lines from Los Angeles, California to Oakland, California.
