Santa Fe Trail Route
From Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe
From Wetmore’s Gazetteer of the State of Missouri, 1837, page 269, the following table of distances is taken:
| Route From Independence, Mo., to Santa Fe | LES Chns |
| Camp Grove | 16 |
| Big Blue river ford | 20 |
| Round Grove | 14 |
| Belmont | 20 |
| Left-hand Grove | 18 |
| Right-hand Grove | 18 |
| Elk Creek | 5 |
| Marie des Cignes | 11 |
| Rock Creek | 5 |
| Prairie Camp | 13 |
| Indian Camp | 9 |
| High-water Creek | 15 |
| Council Grove on the Neosho | 8 |
| Plain Creek | 5 |
| Diamond Spring | 8 |
| Prairie Spring | 8 |
| Hook’s Spring (in prairie) | 8 |
| Cottonwood Grove | 13 |
| Lake Camp | 18 |
| Small Creek | 20 |
| Little Arkansas | 18 |
| Branch of Cow Creek | 12 |
| Main Cow Creek | 13 |
| Arkansas river | 15 |
| Walnut Creek (up the Arkansas) | 20 |
| Ash Creek | 24 |
| Pawnee Fork of Arkansas | 8 |
| Plain Camp | 15 |
| Little Pond | 21 |
| Small Drain | 20 |
| Anderson’s Caches on the Arkansas | 20 |
| Pond Camp west of Arkansas river | 7 |
| The Two Ponds | 22 |
| Several Ponds | 19 |
| The Lake | 12 |
| Sandy Creek | 12 |
| Lone Pond | 14 |
| Small Pool | 22 |
| The Semiron | 8 |
| The Lower Spring | 2 |
| Salt Camp | 8 |
| Nitre Camp | 21 |
| The Willows | 7 |
| Saltpetrc Camp, in view of Sugar House Mound | 10 |
| Upper Semiron Spring | 10 |
| Seven Mile Creek | 7 |
| Drain Camp | 8 |
| Two Pools | 17 |
| Rocky Pool | 8 |
| Bad Water | 7 |
| Sugar Loaf | 5 |
| Kiawa Camp | 10 |
| Sabine Camp | 15 |
| Round Mound | 4 |
| Rocky Branch | 14 |
| Summit Level, in view of Rocky Mountains | 8 |
| Harl’s Camp | 6 |
| Point of Rocks | 10 |
| Deep Hollow | 7 |
| Canadian Fork | 15 |
| Mule Creek | 6 |
| Pilot Knobs | 19 |
| Tar Kiln Grove | 20 |
| El Moro | 10 |
| El Sapiote | 2 |
| Rio Las Guineas | 18 |
| San Magil (village) | 25 |
| Santa Fe | 40 |
| Total | 897 |