Oregon Trail Memorial (Green River)

The crossing the stone points to is the ferry later called Lombard, some thirty miles up the river. Mountain men started it in 1843; Mormons bought it in 1850 and ran it as the Green River Mormon Ferry. In the busy months emigrants waited days and paid as much as sixteen dollars a wagon, and men swam their stock across to save the fee, some of them drowning. The town that put up this stone grew where the Overland stage road crossed the river after 1862, not where the emigrants had. William Lombard's name came only in 1889.

What the plaque says

To all pioneers who passed this way to win and hold the West Trail crossed 30 miles north this point Erected by people of Green River 1931

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Expedition Island — 0.5 mi
  Where John Wesley Powell's 1871 survey left for the canyons of the Green and Colorado; where his 1869 trip started has never been proven.

More markers nearby

• Powell - Colorado River Expedition 1869 — 0.5 mi
• The Overland Stage Station Route (Green River) — 0.8 mi
• Bryan — 12 mi
• Art Gallery of Time — 12 mi