To All Pioneers Who Passed This Way (Big Piney)

The stone thanks the pioneers who traveled the road and says nothing of the men who built it. Lander's crew in the summer of 1858 numbered about 115, many of them recruited among Mormon emigrants in Salt Lake City, though the road was widely thought to be meant to steer travelers clear of the Mormon settlements. In under ninety days they moved roughly 62,000 cubic yards of earth and cut road through 11 miles of willow and 23 miles of pine forest, for $67,873.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Mountain Man — 23 mi
  Six fur-trade rendezvous met near here on the Green; the only artist who ever saw one, Alfred Jacob Miller, came in 1837.

More markers nearby

• Of Cattle and Men — steps away
• The Prairie of the Mass — 18 mi
• Green River Rendezvous — 19 mi
• Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding — 19 mi