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The Lassitor Hay Road

Road Building has been around from the dawn of the wheel and the need to transport commerce between people and cultures. Some of the roads are long gone; some are in use still today. The Native Americans were not without networks of trails to transport goods between tribes. One of these trails for a moment in time became the link between San Diego and the country to the east.
Coming to San Diego from the east we think of as relatively easy today but for the early travelers this was a logistical and practically impossible journey if you didn't know your way. There are only a couple natural routes into San Diego. Coming from the north or south is easy but to the east is a mountain range that proved too steep to build a road up from the desert. You don't realize how impassible most of the terrain is until you go over it on foot and you can't really make it to the desert like that.
Before modern earth building there were animal trails and Indian trails......

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