Emigration Canyon Monument - Natvie People

Long before any wagon came down this canyon, the Salt Lake Valley was Native country — hunting and gathering ground at the meeting place of the Ute, the Shoshone, and the Goshute, peoples who had read this land for thousands of years. The Sons of Utah Pioneers placed this monument in 2012 as a companion to the one honoring the first Latter-day Saint companies, an acknowledgment too long in coming: that 1847 was not a beginning but an interruption, and that the valley the pioneers called empty was nothing of the kind.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 0.2 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.1 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.4 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 1.7 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Emigration Canyon Monument - Mormon Pioneers — steps away
• Emigration Canyon Railroad — steps away
• This is the Place Restored Monument — 0.3 mi
• Mary Fielding Smith House — 0.3 mi