Historical Marker · No. 1055
Fish Springs
Juab County, Unincorporated, Juab County · Utah
Erected by PTLA
In the middle of one of the driest places in America, there is water. Fish Springs is an oasis — warm springs welling up at the foot of the mountains and spreading into marshes full of fish and birds, out in the salt desert west of the Great Salt Lake. Travelers crossing that emptiness in the eighteen-sixties found the sight almost unbelievable, and the Pony Express and Overland Stage kept a station here, a rare place of water on a route where water was everything. The marshes are a national wildlife refuge now, still green against the pale desert.
What the plaque says
Erected Aug. 23, 1940 Fish Springs Station Pony Express 1860 - 61 St. Joseph, Mo. - Sacramento, Cal. Also Overland Stage & Freight Route 1858-1868 This monument constructed by enrollees of U.S. Grazing Division, C.C.C. Camp G-116, Company 2529. Sponsored by: Utah Trails and Landmark Ass'n. Tooele County Tourism tax grant, Sons of Utah Pioneers - Settlement Canyon Chapter SUP No. 237 Rededicated 2017
Where it stands
39.84800, -113.41083 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Round Canyon Pony Express Station — 25 mi
- Gold Hill — 31 mi