State highway routes embracing portions of Routes 280, 82, 238, 101, 5, 72, 12, 37, 121, 87, 162, 185, 92, and 123 and connecting city streets and county roads thereto, and extending in a continuous route from Sonoma southerly to the international border and near the route historically known as El Camino Real shall be known and designated as “El Camino Real.” The official definition, from the California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 635, states:
In 2001, the State Assembly modified the officially recognized route (Assembly Bill 1707, Chapter 739). However, in 1959 the California State Assembly recognized the historic importance of the mission trail, and designated several sections of state highway and connecting roads as the official route of El Camino Real. Technically, any road that came under the jurisdiction of the Spanish viceroys was designated a “Camino Real,” and so today there are roads throughout Mexico and the southwestern United States, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, known as El Camino Real. The first portion was not paved until 1912, when a small section in the San Francisco Bay Area became the first paved highway in California. As the mission system grew and traffic increased, the simple trail became a dirt road wide enough to accommodate carts and wagons. The “royal road” was in fact a modest dirt footpath. The route was a continuation of the Baja California mission trail, and expanded Northward as the Spanish colonized California (or as it was then known, Alta California). Map showing the route of El Camino Real in 1820 (the map was produced in 1920)
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