Mormon Trail Monument

Five hundred colonists came down through this pass in June 1851, and the monument the Sons of Utah Pioneers raised here in 1937 is topped with a wagon wheel to say so. What it does not say is that the traffic reversed. Six years later Brigham Young recalled the San Bernardino colony to Utah over the Utah War, and most of them sold up at a loss and went back the way they had come. It is a round trip commemorated in one direction.

What the plaque says

In June 1851, 500 Mormon pioneers came through this pass to enter the San Bernardino Valley where they colonized and established a prosperous community.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cajon Pass — 5.9 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.
• Lake Gregory — 16 mi
  A New Deal dam built by a Redlands orange grower, for the opposite reason to every other lake on this mountain.
• Kaiser Steel Mill Site — 18 mi
  The mill that made Fontana a steel town, gave the country Kaiser Permanente, and drew a color line at Base Line Road.
• Wigwam Motel — 20 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.

More markers nearby

• Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument — 4.7 mi
• Stoddard-Waite Monument — 4.8 mi
• Sycamore Grove — 12 mi
• Garcés-Smith Monument — 12 mi