Stage Coach Station

From a station out here on the flats, you could book passage to Oregon or Montana. John and Sarah Ann Mower ran a stagecoach stop about a mile and a quarter west of here, serving the Holladay Overland lines under Wells Fargo from 1860 to 1880. The routes it fed were enormous: north and west some 950 miles to The Dalles on the Columbia, with a branch running 400 miles more to the Montana gold camp at Virginia City. Coaches came through three times a week. John changed the horses and mended the harness; Sarah fed the passengers.

What the plaque says

Approximately one and a quarter mile west from this site John and Sarah Ann Mower operated a stage coach station. During 1860-1880 it served the Holliday Overland lines which were under the management of Wells Fargo Company. The line run 950 miles to the Dalles, Oregon and branched off 400 miles farther to Virginia City, Montana. Coaches traveled the line three times each week. Mower changed the horses and made repairs to harnesses and coach. Mrs. Mower served meals to the passengers.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 6.9 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 10 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Powder Mountain — 12 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 14 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac

More markers nearby

• Peter Skene Ogden — 1.6 mi
• North Ogden — 2.3 mi
• Martin Henderson Harris — 2.6 mi
• Pleasant Green Taylor — 2.8 mi