Every family starts on the Front Porch — free. Take a real step and you pass through the Gap as a Pioneer. When your homestead stands, you're Legacy. Tap any stop on the trail to see what happens there.
“So I concluded to quit it, and cut out for some new country.”David Crockett of Tennessee, 1834
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Begin Your Journey →In 1775, Daniel Boone and a crew of axmen blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap — the passage that let families cross the Appalachians and build new lives on their own land.
They didn't buy their way west. They got there one real step at a time, and the ones who went first cleared the path for the families behind them. That's the Homestead Trail: you earn every rank by what you do, and when your homestead stands, you blaze the trail for the next family.
“I set in, and worked with all my might, not losing a single day in the six months.”David Crockett, on working six months as a teenager to pay off his father’s debt · A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, 1834
Honest work, no shortcuts, for the sake of his family. Every rank on the Homestead Trail is earned the same way.
Drawn on the real ground between our home in Franklin, Tennessee, and the High Country of Boone, North Carolina. Towns, rivers and state lines are where they are; the terrain is stylized.