Sawmill Road

Every board in early Monroe came down off the mountain the hard way. The sawmill road climbed from Live Oak to the mills and meadows high on Monroe Mountain, and a single haul was a one- or two-day round trip, depending on how many horses pulled it. Each load ran about two thousand board feet of green lumber, a few tons dragged down a mountain grade on wooden wheels. A small bronze on the boulder by the wagon wheel dates the road to 1916; the map board beside it is an exhibit.

What the plaque says

Sawmill Road - 1916 In honor of those who pioneered the sawmill road from Live Oak to the sawmill and meadows on the Monroe Mountain Sevier Valley Chapter SUP Project 131 - 2008

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