Hole-in-the-Rock Arch

Most pioneer memorials are things people build — a plaque, a cairn, a bronze figure. This one is a thing they named. In 1957 the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association took a natural sandstone span west of the crossing — locals knew it as Window Rock Arch — and rededicated it to the 1879–80 San Juan trek, letting the desert itself carry the memory. No plaque was poured; the arch simply became the marker. It stands unsigned off the Hole-in-the-Rock backway, a stone window framing the same country those wagons crawled across.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Hole-in-the-Rock Crossing — 3.9 mi