Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument

The road this spire marks never had a name everyone agreed on. Salt Lake to Los Angeles by way of the Old Spanish Trail, it was the winter route, open when the Sierra was shut, and one historian of it calls it the most difficult wagon road in American history. Eight members of the San Bernardino pioneer society put the monument up in 1917 and cut their own names into the base. The arrows on the upper spire point where the road ran; the name is their best guess.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cajon Pass — 2.5 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.
• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 16 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.

More markers nearby

• Stoddard-Waite Monument — steps away
• Mormon Trail Monument — 4.7 mi
• Sycamore Grove — 7.5 mi
• Garcés-Smith Monument — 7.7 mi