Morris Wilson Memorial Park

La Verkin named this park for the man who held its first quarter-century together. Morris Wilson Jr. raised one of the new townsite's first homes — a two-room house over a hand-dug cellar his family occupied by January 1904 — and when the settlement organized as a ward that June, he became its first bishop. He served twenty-four years, an era that built the 1907 rock meetinghouse whose belfry called the town to every meeting, school lesson, and social it had.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hurricane Canal Trail — 1.5 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Grafton Ghost Town — 11 mi
  A photogenic ghost town used in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Springdale — 15 mi
  Zion's south-entrance gateway town, wedged between the Watchman and the Virgin River
• Zion National Park — 15 mi
  Towering sandstone cliffs that glow like fire at sunset

More markers nearby

• LaVerkin Pioneers — steps away
• The Southern Exploring Company — 0.8 mi
• Southern Exploring Company 1849 Parley P. Pratt Southern Utah Expedition — 1.1 mi
• Look-Out Point — 1.3 mi