Mormon Flat

Mormon Flat is where the wagons caught their breath. Coming down East Canyon, the trail reaches this open bottom at the mouth of Little Emigration Canyon — the last level ground before the hard pull up to Big Mountain. Companies gathered here to rest stock and steel themselves; a rock nearby is still scored with grooves from iron wheels. It was a Donner Party camp first, in 1846, then a Mormon one in 1847, then a stop for Pony Express riders and freighters. Today it's a quiet trailhead campground. The state's 2015 survey found the markers here gone.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Utah Olympic Park — 7.9 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 — 13 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 13 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon

More markers nearby

• Little Emigration Canyon — 0.8 mi
• East Canyon Campsites — 2.9 mi
• Big Mountain — 3.7 mi
• Ephraim Hank's Pony Express Station — 6.3 mi