Memories at Mountain Dell

Mountain Dell is the little valley the trail dropped into after Big Mountain, named by Ephraim Hanks. This Sons of Utah Pioneers panel tells it through one family. By its account an eleven-year-old handcart girl, Isabelle Siddoway, begged a potato from the station keeper here and called it the best thing she had ever eaten; in 1870 Francis Armstrong, later mayor of Salt Lake City, bought the dell and gave it to his wife, the same Isabelle. His 1882 stone farmhouse, drawn on the panel, stood until 1999.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emigration Canyon — 4.9 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 6.8 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 7.1 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 7.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Ephraim Hank's Pony Express Station — 0.2 mi
• Little Mountain Summit — 1.5 mi
• Camp Grant — 1.6 mi
• Camp Grant Monument — 1.6 mi