Helendale, California

United States

Helendale, California shares 40 connections with 1975 other places across 9 topics, dominated by transportation, history, and nature. The community lies on the Route 66 corridor, paved through the area in 1926, and earlier served as a desert crossing for explorers including John C. Frémont and his guide Kit Carson. Its connections reach Mexico, Colorado, and Los Angeles, tracing the Mojave Desert's role as a passage through the American Southwest. The Mojave and Serrano tribes lived in the area, as did fur trappers like Jedediah Smith, who passed through in 1826.