Old Delta Sediments

The panel here was down when it was last photographed, in June 2017: its posts snapped and the sign flat in the grass with its face hidden, so no one has recorded its words. The terraces and gullies around this pullout are Bear River's old delta, laid down where the river met Lake Bonneville. The register's 80-foot drop understates the flood that lowered the lake: the outflow at Red Rock Pass took it down about 350 feet, and as the water kept falling the river cut back through its own delta, leaving the steep sides along the road.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Boa Ogoi (Bear River Massacre Site) — 4.4 mi
  The Northwestern Band bought back the ground where its people were killed in 1863, and is turning farm fields back into the river bottom they knew.
• Preston and Napoleon Dynamite — 5.3 mi
  A farm town in the north end of Cache Valley that a former student turned into a set in the summer of 2003, without changing much of anything.
• Minnetonka Cave — 17 mi
  Found by a grouse hunter, named first for a porcupine and then in a language from the far side of the Rockies. Five kinds of bats winter inside.
• Beaver Mountain Ski Area — 20 mi
  A family-owned ski hill that has been run by the same family since 1939

More markers nearby

• Bear River Massacre — 4.4 mi
• Utah & Northern Railway — 4.4 mi
• Hatch House — 10 mi
• Idaho's Oldest Town — 10 mi