It was 2.54 miles southeast of Painted Caves, on California Creek, a noted camp location on the road.
[1][2] The crossing point and the gorge leading down to it from the east are now submerged under Lake Amistad.
Robert A. Eccleston described the crossing and the route from San Felipe Springs to the Devils River in his diary of his journey over the San Antonio-El Paso Road with some of the emigrants to California, travelling with the military expedition that pioneered the route in 1849: Tuesday, July 10th.
The Devils River at this place runs over a solid bed of rock, and the water is from 1 to 2 feet deep and so clear that the smallest thing can be seen at the bottom.
[3]There was formerly a stone stagecoach station at the crossing, mentioned by Burr G. Duval in "Journal of a Prospecting Trip to West Texas in 1879", his diary of his journey along the San Antonio-El Paso Road in 1879.