Sawmill Road

Every board in early Monroe came down off the mountain the hard way. The sawmill road climbed from Live Oak up to the mills and meadows high on Monroe Mountain, and hauling a single load was a one- or two-day round trip by wagon and horse team. Each load ran about two thousand board feet of green lumber — a weight close to that of a modern car, dragged down a mountain grade on wooden wheels. Timber built this town, and this road is how the timber got here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Big Rock Candy Mountain — 4.9 mi
  The real mountain that inspired the famous hobo folk song
• Fremont Indian State Park — 11 mi
  The largest known Fremont Indian village ever discovered
• Fishlake National Forest — 22 mi
  Home to Pando — the largest living organism on Earth
• Cove Fort — 25 mi
  A beautifully restored 1867 pioneer fort at the crossroads of two interstates

More markers nearby

• Monroe Town Bell — 0.5 mi
• Monroe Pioneers/Old Fort — 0.5 mi
• Fort Alma — 0.6 mi
• Camp Alma Relic Hall — 0.6 mi