What is El Camino Real?

One of these was El Camino Real de los Tejas, which provided the only primary overland route from what is now Mexico and across the Río Grande to the Red River Valley in what is now Louisiana. read more

El Camino Real is designated as California Historical Landmark #784. There are two state historical markers honoring the road: one located near Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego and the other one near Mission San Francisco de Asís in San Francisco. read more

El Camino Real This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California’s apostle Padre Junípero Serra, O.F.M. to mark the southern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it. read more

To clothe El Camino Real with mythic significance, they invented sentimental stories about Franciscan fathers traveling along the road from mission to mission, which were supposedly spaced one day apart along the trail. Today's El Camino Real is largely a "booster myth," says Matthew Roth of the Automobile Club of Southern California Archives. read more