Camp Grant Monument

A year before the Mormons, the Donner-Reed party came this way. In August 1846, gambling on Lansford Hastings' untried shortcut, they hacked their road down through these canyons toward the valley, camping along the way — this spot among them. The Wasatch cost them weeks they didn't have; the delay is what stranded them in the Sierra Nevada snows that winter, where nearly half died. This monument marks their passage through Emigration Canyon, the doomed vanguard of a trail that, a summer later, would carry others safely to the valley below.

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