The alternate trail left the Spanish Trail at the Ute Junction and continued on up the California Wash to the top of a ridge and then followed the Gypsum Wash West. Monument in Gypsum Wash which the trail followed. This route later became the Arrowhead Trail. Gypsum Wash heads easterly, bypassing Las Vegas Valley. Travelers could then head south and cross the Las Vegas Wash, the outlet for Las Vegas and Duck creeks and several springs in the Wash, all of which emptied into the Colorado River, October 1967

Box 01, folder Old Spanish Trail photograph packet 1item 14