Indian Trail

Long before settlers, this high valley was a summer country. Ute and Shoshone bands came each warm season to the upper Weber to hunt and fish and to gather the wild fruit and sego lily bulbs that grew here — the sego a staple root dug by the thousands. Their trail ran along the eastern foothills to Weber Canyon, crossed the river at the old Kamas ford, and reached east toward Henry's Fork and Brush Creek in the Uintas. Thomas Rhodes settled the valley in 1858, and the modern highway still follows part of that Native path.

What the plaque says

This valley settled by Thomas Rhodes in 1858, was a summer paradise for Indians who came to hunt fish and gather wild fruit and sego bulbs. The Weber River Indian trail skirted the east foothills to Weber Canyon crossed the river at the Old Kamas Ford 3½ miles east off here running thence to Henry's Fork and to Brush Creek in the eastern Uinta Mountains. This trail was used by Indians, scouts and pioneers and is marked in part by present highway

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kamas — 5.0 mi
  A ranching town and gateway to the Uinta Mountains
• Samak Smokehouse — 6.1 mi
  A rustic roadside smokehouse serving legendary smoked meats
• Jordanelle State Park — 10 mi
  A sapphire reservoir nestled between the Wasatch and Uinta mountains
• Park City — 11 mi
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.

More markers nearby

• Fort Sage Bottom — 2.4 mi
• Rhoades Valley Fort, on Relic Hall — 5.0 mi
• First Settler of Kamas — 5.2 mi
• Marsac Elementary (3) Markers — 11 mi