Midland Trail - Routing

Routing

Using the present road names, the highway approximately used the following route:

• U.S. Route 60, Newport News, Virginia to Richmond, Virginia
• U.S. Route 1, State Route 54 (Virginia), U.S. Route 33, State Route 22 (Virginia), and U.S. Route 250, Richmond to Staunton, Virginia
• Two alternate routes - U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 60 or State Route 42 (Virginia), State Route 39 (Virginia), and U.S. Route 220, Staunton to Covington, Virginia
• U.S. Route 60, Covington to Louisville, Kentucky
• U.S. Route 150 and U.S. Route 50, Louisville to Kansas City, Missouri
• K-10 (Kansas) and U.S. Route 24, Kansas City to Limon, Colorado
• U.S. Route 40, Limon to Denver, Colorado
• U.S. Route 40, Denver, former Colorado State Highway 11 (1923), (Kremmling, Colorado-Wolcott, Colorado), U.S. Route 6, and U.S. Route 89, to Salt Lake City
• Old Lincoln Highway, Salt Lake City to Ely, Nevada
  • An alternate route, approved in 1922, followed U.S. Route 6 from Santaquin, Utah (south of Salt Lake City) to Ely.
• U.S. Route 6, Ely, Nevada, U.S. Route 395, State Route 14 (California), and San Fernando Road, San Fernando Valley, to Los Angeles