First Encampment Park

This little park marks where the very first pioneers stopped. The advance company of the Latter-day Saint migration reached this ground on July 22, 1847 — two days ahead of Brigham Young himself — and made the first camp in the Salt Lake Valley here, unhitching their wagons at the mouth of the canyons after the long haul down. The park recreates something of the sagebrush landscape they met, and carries the roll of that first company engraved in stone, name by name, so a visitor can search the rocks for an ancestor among the founders.

What the plaque says

First Encampment Park is located at the approximate location where the First Pioneer Company of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints camped when they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847. The park is an interpretive representation of the landscape the pioneers encountered as they entered into the Salt Lake Valley. Where Is My Pioneer? Below is a list of the First Company of Pioneers who camped in this area and have their names engraved on the rocks. Adams, Barnabus 22 · Allen, Rufus 27 · Angell, Truman 13 · Atwood Millen 12 · Barney, Lewis 27 · Barnum, Charles D 15 · Boggs, Francis 26 · Brown, George 26 · Brown, Nathaniel 14 · Bullock, Thomas 25 · Burke, Charles A 29 · Burnam, Jacob D 25 · Burnam, Jacob P 29 · Carrington, Albert 12 · Carter, William W 13 · Chamberlain, Solomon 20 · Chesley, Alexander P 20 · Clayton, William 29 · Coltrain, Zebadee 20 · Compton, Allen 27 · Cosby, Oscar 27 · Craig, James 27 · Crow, Family 8 · Dixon, John 38 · Driggs, Sterling 24 · Dykes, William 10 · Earl, Sylvester H 36 · Eastman, Orzo F 23 · Egbert, Joseph T 16 · Eldridge, John S 18 · Fairbainks, Nathaniel 39 · Fitzgerald, Perry 38 · Flake, Green 38 · Fowler, John S 32 · Fox, Samuel B 28 · Freeman, John M 38 · Frost, Burr 19 · Gleason, John 14 · Grant, David 35 · Grand, George R 35 · Greene, John Y 20 · Hancock, Joseph 4 · Hanks, Sidney A 11 · Hansen, HAns C 37 · Henrie, William 6 · Holman, John G 6 · Howd, Simeon F 15 · Ivory, Matthew H 24 · Johnson, Philo 2 · Jackman, Levi 37 · Kelsey, Stephen 4 · Kendall, Levi N 30 · Kleinman, Conrad 21 · Lay, Hark 32 · Lewis, Tarlton 21 · Little, Archibald 33 · Little, Jesse C 33 · Losee, Franklin G 31 Loveland, Chauncey 7 · Marble, Samuel S · Markham, Stephen 28 · Matthews, Joseph L 38 · Mills, George 38 · Myers, Lewis B 39 · Newman, Elijah 7 · Norton, Jacob 7 · Norton, John W 17 · Park, John 39 · Powell, David 39 · Rappleye, A. Tunis 38 · Redden, Return J. 38 · Richards, Willard 6 Roberts, Benjamin M. 2 · Rockwell, Orson Parker 3 · Rolfe, Benjamin W. 4 · Rooker, Joseph 30 · Roundy, Shadvack 40 · Schofield, Joseph S 7 · Scholes, George 2 · Seeley, Owen 28 · Shumway, Andrew P. 11 · Shumway, Charles 11 · Shupe, Andrew J. 9 · Smith, George A. 6 · Snow, Erastus 19 · Steward, James W. 2 · Taft, Seth 7 · Taylor, Norman 5 · Therkill, Family 1 · Thomas, Robert 17 · Thornton, Horace 27 · Thorpe, Marcus 28 · Vance, William 30 · Wadsworth, William S. 32 · Walker, Henson 28 · Wardle, George 10 · Weiler, Jacob 28 · Wheeler, John 37 · Whiopple, Edson 28 · Williams, Almon M. 14

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 0.8 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 0.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• International Peace Gardens — 2.7 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Salt Lake City — 2.7 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.

More markers nearby

• Others Who Came — steps away
• How the Park Came To Be — steps away
• Wilford Woodruff's Farm 1850 — steps away
• Herman L. Franks — 0.6 mi