The Trail to Yesterday is a 1918 silent film western directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Bert Lytell and Anna Q. Nilsson. It was produced by and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is based on a novel, The Trail to Yesterday c.1913, by Charles Alden Seltzer.Some filming took place at Arivaca, Arizona.Surviving print held by EYE Institut/Filmmuseum, Netherlands.