California trail
Traveling from Phoenix, Arizona to Sacramento, California you would be traveling northwest.
You would be traveling north from Phoenix to Sacramento.
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People trying to get to CA to settle. They would arrive at Sutter's Fort in Sacramento .
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West. The trip from Chicago, Illinois to Sacramento, California would be in a westerly direction. Chicago is in the north central part of the US, and Sacramento, the Capital of California, is in the central valley in California. California is the state that is farthest west in the US (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
The travelers would be called emigrants.
To travel from Flagstaff to Sacramento you will go North-West.
About 1,632.50 miles accordng to MapQuest.
It would take about 6 hours to drive from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles, California. There is approximately 385 miles between the two locations.
It is 2,636 miles according to Google Maps.