Brigham Young Statue

Brigham Young led the Latter-day Saints west in 1847 and then spent thirty years as the most powerful man in the Intermountain West — church president, territorial governor, and the driving organizer behind hundreds of settlements from Idaho to Arizona. This statue honors that outsized role. Whatever one makes of him, Young's stamp on the map is undeniable: he didn't just found Salt Lake City but directed, town by town, the colonizing of a whole region, dispatching companies to settle valleys most of them had never seen. Utah is in large part his blueprint.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.5 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.9 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.3 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Founding of the State of Deseret-Founding of Utah — steps away
• Unca Sam Bust — steps away
• Chief John Duncan — steps away
• U.S.S. Utah Veterans Memorial — steps away