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CTHA has been publishing informative, interesting and educational newsletters since 2014.  The most recent editions are here for your convenience.  Older editions can be obtained upon request.  [...]

The Western Emigrant Trail Collection (WETC) is located at Great Basin College. The collection contains many books and research materials related to the Emigrant Trails and the region. The WETC [...]

The FWS is reviewing the draft MET Mapping report from the 2018 field season.  Plans are in development for the 2019 field work.

CTHA is working with the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) on a long-term project to develop a bicycle path between Elko and the California Trail Interpretive Center along the route of [...]

CTHA has increased visitation 150% since 2012 through aggressive multi-media marketing. The primary sources of our funding are Travel Nevada, the Elko Recreation Board, and the Elko Convention [...]

CITC guides are available in Spanish and stories are available in Mandarin. With an awareness that just under 30% of the local population and many of the visitors are Hispanic, CTHA supported the [...]

CTHA has established the California Trail Experience Endowment Fund.  This fund is managed by the Western Nevada Community Foundation.  The fund is available for trail protection and preservation [...]

CTHA has submitted a letter to the NV Department of transportation encouraging them to move forward with the bicycle path between Elko and the California Trail Interpretive Center.

Born in Winnemucca in 1917, Paul Sawyer moved to Elko as a young child His career was spent in the auto sales and leasing business. After retiring, Paul worked for several years with the Humboldt [...]

Dale was born in Denver but moved to Elko where he attended high school in the ’40s. He served as a cryptographer during the Korean War. Dale attended both the University of Colorado and the [...]

Joseph Walker was a mountain man and explorer.   In 1843 and 1848 he pioneered  the segment of the California Trail, the primary route for the emigrants to the gold fields during the California [...]

Elijah Stephens was a mountain man and a trapper who had spent a lot of time in the Pacific Northwest.  He captained the first wagon train to get wagons over the Sierra Nevada in 1844.

Nancy Kelsey, who traveled with her husband Ben and the Bidwell Bartleson Party to California in 1841.  She reached California in November of that year with a toddler in tow, have walked or [...]

John Bidwell was the younger of two men who led the Bidwell-Bartleson party to California in 1841.  (The other was John Bartleson.)  Having pushed hard to reach what became northeastern Nevada, [...]