Little Emigration Canyon

This is the last climb. From Mormon Flat the trail turns up Little Emigration Canyon and grinds five miles through the aspens to the crest of Big Mountain — and it was from that summit, on July 19, 1847, that the first Latter-day Saint scouts finally saw the Salt Lake Valley below. Everything the pioneers had endured across a thousand miles narrowed to that one canyon and that one look. At the canyon's mouth stand two rock walls the Mormon militia threw up in 1857, bracing for a war with the United States that never quite came.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Utah Olympic Park — 7.1 mi
  The ski jumping and bobsled venue from the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Emigration Canyon — 11 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• Park City Mountain — 12 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Park City — 13 mi
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.

More markers nearby

• Mormon Flat — 0.8 mi
• East Canyon Campsites — 3.8 mi
• Ephraim Hank's Pony Express Station — 5.8 mi
• Memories at Mountain Dell — 6.0 mi