First Settler of Kamas

Kamas counts its beginning from John Lambert, who in 1861 built the first house in the valley on this spot. Lambert (1820–1893) came into the high Kamas Valley — good summer grass ringed by the Uinta and Wasatch mountains — when it was still frontier, ahead of the fort the settlers would throw up a few years later during the Black Hawk War. The little 1942 marker sits a block off the modern scenic byway's start, fixing the place where the town's first cabin stood eighty years before the sign went up.

What the plaque says

The first settler of Kamas John Lambert 1820-1893 built his house on this spot A.D. 1861

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kamas — 0.2 mi
  A ranching town and gateway to the Uinta Mountains
• Samak Smokehouse — 1.7 mi
  A rustic roadside smokehouse serving legendary smoked meats
• Jordanelle State Park — 8.0 mi
  A sapphire reservoir nestled between the Wasatch and Uinta mountains
• Deer Valley — 11 mi
  A ski-only luxury resort above Park City, now in the middle of the largest expansion in U.S. ski history.

More markers nearby

• Rhoades Valley Fort, on Relic Hall — 0.3 mi
• The Old Fort — 11 mi
• Grappa Restaurant Building — 11 mi
• Bogan Boarding House — 11 mi