Mormon Pioneer Trail, Centennial Trekkers

For the pioneer centennial in 1947, 148 descendants of the original settlers retraced their ancestors' road west — the same number that had made up the vanguard company a hundred years earlier. Calling themselves the Centennial Trekkers, they ran it as a motor caravan, camping each night where the pioneers once had: Nauvoo, Garden Grove, Winter Quarters, Fort Laramie, Independence Rock, Fort Bridger. What took the first company months, they covered in eight days, July 14 to 22. The plaque recording it hangs inside the Sons of Utah Pioneers headquarters at the mouth of Parley's Canyon.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 3.1 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Emigration Canyon — 3.7 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 3.9 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 4.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• 1997 Sesquicentennial Trekkers — steps away
• Horace A. Sorensen — steps away
• Handcart Companies — steps away
• The Overland Stage — steps away