Angels Are Near Us

This boulder and its plaques don't commemorate the original pioneers — they commemorate the people who reenacted them. In 1997, for the sesquicentennial of the 1847 arrival, modern Latter-day Saints retraced the Mormon Trail by wagon and handcart, and "Angels Are Near Us" marks that act of living memory. It's a monument to a commemoration, which makes it quietly revealing: a faith so shaped by its pioneer story that walking in the ancestors' literal footsteps became a defining experience for a new generation, worth its own marker at the trail's end.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — steps away
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.8 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.1 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 2.0 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Bodil Mortensen Statue — steps away
• First Company of Pioneers into the Valley — steps away
• This is the Place State Park — steps away
• Eyes Westward Statue — steps away