Camp Grant

The Mormon pioneers of 1847 camped here on the same worn ground the Donner party had cut a year earlier — and where that shortcut had ruined the emigrants, it served the Saints well. By the time Brigham Young's companies reached this camp, scouts had already crested Big Mountain and seen the valley; the hardest work was behind them. What the Donner-Reed party paid for in weeks of delay and death, the Mormons inherited as a finished road. They followed it down the last canyons and, on July 24, entered the valley they'd crossed a continent to reach.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emigration Canyon — 3.7 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 5.5 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 6.0 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 6.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Camp Grant Monument — steps away
• Little Mountain Summit — 1.1 mi
• Memories at Mountain Dell — 1.6 mi
• Ephraim Hank's Pony Express Station — 1.8 mi