Pine Valley Chapel & Tithing Office

Ebenezer Bryce was a shipwright, not a church builder, so when Pine Valley asked him to raise a chapel in 1868, the story goes he built the only way he knew: like a ship turned upside down. Folklore or not, the building is a marvel. The walls were framed flat, hoisted upright, and lashed with wooden pegs and rawhide that tightened as it dried, scarcely a nail in it. It has held services ever since, the oldest Latter-day Saint chapel in continuous use. Bryce moved on and left his name on a canyon you may have heard of.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Snow Canyon State Park — 15 mi
  Red and white sandstone cliffs with ancient lava flows
• Kolob Canyons — 19 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park
• Hurricane Canal Trail — 19 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm — 20 mi
  Real dinosaur footprints preserved in ancient sandstone

More markers nearby

• Wood for Pine Valley Chapel and Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ — steps away
• Pine Valley — 1.3 mi
• Mountain Meadow Memorial (5) Panels — 8.8 mi
• Mountain Meadows Trail & Camp — 9.2 mi