National Historic Trails (Non-Units) - Mormon Pioneer

Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail (Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming)

9/24/2004 Oregon National Historic Trail

9/16/2009 ... headed over to This Is The Place Park. Although there is a heritage village here, I was just stopping to check out the monuments, including the huge TITP monument, on the Mormon Pioneer NHT (actually, the end). Also checked out the Pony Express monument. Weather is really great – warm, blue skies, pretty clouds. From TITP, headed east to Echo Canyon. ... Right nearby, though, was a station marker for the Pony Express [NHT in UT]. This route was also on the MP trail. South on I15 and off at Lehi to head to Fairfield. Stopped at the Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park to see the Inn and the Pony Express exhibit. Continued a few miles to where the PE trail took off on a dirt road.

This Is The Place monument

Mormon Trail marker

Pony Express Monument sign

Nice PE statue

A PE map and info

Reconstructed PE station

Weber PE station marker

Camp Floyd sign

Camp Floyd PE marker

The PE blaze

One of the Camp Floyd buildings

A view on the Pony Express Trail

5/12/2011 North a bit more brought us to a part of the Mormon Pioneer NHT [NE]. This was the area of the Winter Quarters. An LDS Temple is at the site of the Pioneer Cemetery where hundreds of pioneers who died over the winter were buried. There were some bronze monuments and memorials here as well.

Winter Quarters and Cemetery sign

A nice statue at the sign

The cemetery sign

One of the many graves

5/24/2012 [Between Fremont and Schuyler] Historic Monument (Overland and Mormon Trails).

The monument ...

... with detail

5/25/2012 Oregon National Historic Trail

5/31/2013 Oregon National Historic Trail

6/1/2013 Oregon National Historic Trail

5/30/2019 Heading south out of [Osceola] we picked up the Mormon Pioneer Auto Route with the official signage. ... Garden Grove. Here there was a wayside exhibit with signage and a memorial for the Mormon Pioneer NHT [IA]. It was a temporary way station established near the river in April 1846 and was abandoned in 1852.

The auto route

Me taking a photo of ...

... the auto route sign

Ken reading Garden Grove ...

... interpretive panels ...

... about the NHT

Park sign ...

... with emblem

Ken and me by ...

... the memorial