Adobe Rock

The rock was a landmark long before it had a name. Travelers crossing into Tooele Valley steered by this lone tower of stone, a fixed point in open country. In the winter of 1849, Captain Howard Stansbury's survey party, circling the Great Salt Lake with a herd of cattle, threw up an adobe shelter beside it — one of the first structures built in the valley. The adobe melted back into the ground long ago. The rock it named did not. Adobe Rock still stands beside the highway, steering traffic it was never meant to guide.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Saltair — 12 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 12 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Great Salt Lake — 13 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• International Peace Gardens — 19 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature

More markers nearby

• Black Rock Resort — 4.6 mi
• Garfield & Lake Point Resorts — 4.6 mi
• Tooele's First Cemetery — 10.0 mi
• Lincoln Highway — 11 mi