Modern Roads
Between 1869 and 1887 the Oregon & California Railroad Company built a railroad along this route, crossing Siskiyou Summit in 1887. In the mid-1910s the pioneering Pacific Highway, later numbered as U.S. Highway 99, provided the first easy automobile access along the path of the trail. Interstate 5 was built in the 1960s along the route of the original 1820s Siskiyou Trail. About 4 miles (7 km) north of the California border, and just south of Ashland, Oregon, the highway crosses Siskiyou Summit, the highest point on I-5 (elevation 4,310 ft (1,310 m)). The railroad and interstate highway deviate from the original trail in small ways according to the needs and engineering available to their builders.
Read more about this topic: Siskiyou Trail
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or roads:
“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Pioneers lay the roads for those who follow to walk on.”
—Chinese proverb.