A Wonderful Piece of Engineering: The Mullan Road

The panel quotes a Randall Hewett, and the man it means spelled his name Hewitt. In 1862 his uncle, Christopher C. Hewitt, a newly appointed judge, led a party from Fort Hall to Spokane over part of the Mullan Road, and Randall kept a journal. He crossed the Point of Rocks near Alberton on September 10 and reached the Big Side Cut the next day. He published the account in 1906 as Across the Plains and Over the Divide, with advice on choosing a road: take either, and halfway through you would wish for the other.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 15 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 21 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.

More markers nearby

• A Lost World — steps away
• Schitsu'umsh — 4.8 mi
• Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw) — 4.8 mi
• Willow Creek Slide — 5.8 mi