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Box Canyon

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California, San Diego County, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
The old way variously known as Sonora, Colorado River or Southern Emigrant Trail and later as Butterfield Overland Mail Route traversed Box Canyon just east of here. January 19, 1847, the Mormon Battalion, under command of Lt-Col. Philip St G Cooke, using hand tools hewed a passage through the rocky walls of the narrow gorge for their wagons and opened the first road into Southern California.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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