Golden Pass Road and Tollhouse

Everyone entering the valley in the earliest years came the hard way, hauling wagons over Big and Little Mountain and down Emigration Canyon. In 1850, Parley P. Pratt offered a shortcut. He'd cut a road through the next canyon south—narrow enough that it crossed the creek sixteen times—and opened it on the Fourth of July as a toll road: seventy-five cents for a two-horse outfit, a penny a sheep. The Deseret News called it 'the Golden Pass,' and gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, and stagecoaches all used it. Today the same route carries I-80.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 2.6 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 2.7 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Liberty Park — 3.0 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 3.3 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Blue Star Memorial Highway - Sugarhouse Park — 0.9 mi
• Mary Jane Dilworth — 0.9 mi
• Utah Penitentiary — 1.1 mi
• Sugar House Monument — 1.5 mi