The Yellowstone Trail ran through the city, and its former route is denoted by signs through the downtown and northern portions of the city.

Reeder is a stop along the old Yellowstone Trail, the first transcontinental automobile highway in the Northern United States.

Nenno is on the old Yellowstone Trail, one of the first transcontinental highways.

The Yellowstone Trail developed in parallel with the nationwide effort for internal improvements, which included building and improving roads.

The main Yellowstone Trail Association office was closed on 15 March 1930.

South Dakota 16 was designated in the 1920s, as a number for the Yellowstone Trail across the state.

The road traveling north-south through the community was part of the Yellowstone Trail and later Wisconsin Highway 175; it is now a county highway.

Portions of the highway were part of the Yellowstone Trail.

The town's location made it a necessary stop on the Sunset Trail also known as the Yellowstone Trail.

Yellowstone Trail is the original name designation for this same stretch of U.S. 212 from the auto trail days.