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Hike Box Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Box Canyon is located off Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Historical marker at Box Canyon. "Box Canyon. 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. State Registered Landmark No. 472. Marker placed by San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the Historical Markers Committee. Erected 1953."
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