Pony Express Museum

For eighteen months in 1860 and 1861, the Pony Express ran a relay of horses and riders some 1,900 miles between Missouri and California, carrying mail across the continent in about ten days — and the route ran straight through Utah, with stations strung across the territory. The telegraph made it obsolete almost overnight, and the company lost money the whole time. Yet the brief, doomed venture became one of the most romanticized chapters of the American West. This marker remembers a service that lasted scarcely a year and a half.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lagoon Amusement Park — 0.2 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 9.8 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ensign Peak — 13 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Temple Square — 15 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Honoring the Builders of the Salt Lake Temple — steps away
• Temple Quarry SUP Members — steps away
• Honoring Builders of Salt Lake Temple — steps away
• Civil War Cannon — 0.2 mi