Redmond Pioneers

Redmond took its name from the red mounds just west of town, but its fortune lay underground. When Mormon pioneers settled this stretch of the Sevier River, they found beneath their feet a buried seam of salt, the remains of an ocean that dried up ages before anyone came to farm. The settlers dug it for their tables and their herds; their descendants still do. The deposit is mined yet, sold across the country as "Real Salt." Few pioneer towns can say the thing that first sustained them is the thing that sustains them now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gunnison — 10 mi
  Sanpete's southern hub, home to Utah's oldest operating theater
• Mayfield — 11 mi
  Gateway to Twelve Mile Canyon and the Skyline Drive high country
• Sterling — 16 mi
  A highway hamlet and the doorway to Palisade State Park
• Palisade State Park — 17 mi
  A pioneer-built lake turned central Utah's favorite state park

More markers nearby

• CCC Camp F-32, Co.-479 — 4.1 mi
• CCC & POW Camp Museum — 4.1 mi
• Gunnison Pioneers — 10 mi
• Gunnison Valley Veterans Memorial — 10 mi