Promontory Monument (4) Markers

This granite shaft marks the exact spot — Promontory Summit — where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met on May 10, 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad. The monument itself is younger: the Golden Spike Centennial Commission raised it in 1969 for the hundredth anniversary of that meeting. It commemorates not a settlement but a convergence — two railroads built toward each other from Sacramento and Omaha, finally running out of ground between them at this windswept saddle north of the Great Salt Lake.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Golden Spike National Historical Park — steps away
  Where East met West — the spot that connected America by rail
• Spiral Jetty — 14 mi
  Robert Smithsons iconic land art masterpiece on the Great Salt Lake

More markers nearby

• Competition, 1869 — steps away
• Stephan Mather Marker — steps away
• Golden Spike - Joining of the Rails — steps away
• Sagwitch Timbimboo, Shoshone Chief — 28 mi