California Trail Markers in Elko County
 "Trails West Marker C-39: Carlin Canyon on the California Trail")
California Trail Marker in Carlin Canyon on the Banks of the Humboldt River
 "Trails West Marker C-39: Carlin Canyon on the California Trail")
 "TCarlin Canyon on the California Trail")
One has a feeling very near bordering on fear
as he passes under those precipices....
 "The Road in Carlin Canyon")
The Road in Carlin Canyon
 "Humboldt River in Carlin Canyon")
Humboldt River in Carlin Canyon
 "Carlin Canyon on the California Trail")
BLM Interpretive Panel
All Photos 14 July 2010
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Chestnut Road in Carlin Canyon
California Trail - Carlin Canyon
"We have to cross the river four times... on each side of you there is a perpendicular wall of vast rock... overhanging the road so one has a feeling very near bordering on fear as he passes under those precipices" -- Lewis Beers, Aug 3, 1852
The trail marker stands near a Bureau of Land Management Historical Wayside Shelter which contains an interpretive panel:
During the 1840s the shouts of men and the creaks of harness and wagon became common as the great migration west began. It started in 1841 when the Bidwell-Bartleson party became the first emigrant group to thread its way through Carlin Canyon. Two years later the Walker-Chiles party, traversing the California Trail from Ft. Hall, Idaho, rolled the first wagons into view. Over the next several years, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children bound for California and western Nevada passed this way.