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Thank for your interest in joining the California Trail Heritage Alliance (CTHA). To complete your membership request, please use the donate button below to pay for your membership. General Memberships [...]

Donations made to the Alliance go to benefit specific programs and projects of the California Trail Heritage Alliance. The Donation Levels are: Pioneer ($250) Trail Blazer [...]

The California Trail Heritage Alliance is a volunteer organization of people with a variety of skills and interests.  Bottom line – we love history and we [...]

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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.  [...]

Educational Trunks In a collaborative effort with the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA), funded by a Union Pacific Foundation grant, three educational trunks have been created for [...]

Discover what the California Trail Heritage Alliance (CTHA) is doing! CTHA believes in doing projects today that are of value now and in the future.  Our [...]

Help preserve our western trails heritage. Make a difference in your community. Learn more about our local trails and their stories. Preserve a legacy for our community [...]

“An American legacy is at risk. The historic trails trod by half a million pioneers, gold rushers, adventurers, families—people in pursuit of a better life in the West—are under constant [...]

Partners & Friends To paraphrase Aristotle, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  Much of the success of the California Trail Heritage Alliance [...]

Mailing Address California Trail Heritage Alliance Center P.O. Box 1778 Elko, NV 89803 (775) [...]

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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.

The Elko “Hot Hole” is a camp site mentioned in many of the emigrant journals and diaries.  CTHA, through a matching grant from Travel Nevada has completed fencing the site with an attractive [...]

In a collaborative effort with the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA), funded by a Union Pacific Foundation grant, five educational trunks have been created for teachers around Northern [...]

The Hastings Cutoff crosses almost 90 miles of northeastern Nevada.  Entering Nevada near Wendover, it roughly parallels Interstate 80 until it rejoins the California Trail west of Elko NV.  While [...]