Stephan Mather Marker

The plaque honors Stephen Mather, the borax millionaire who became the first director of the National Park Service in 1917 and, in a dozen restless years, knit a scattering of parks into a coherent system before his health broke. After his death in 1930, the Park Service cast a standardized bronze tablet in his memory and placed copies across its sites; this is one of them. It reads, in part, that there will never come an end to the good he has done — a rare federal monument to an administrator, set among the parks he made.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Golden Spike National Historical Park — steps away
  Where East met West — the spot that connected America by rail
• Spiral Jetty — 14 mi
  Robert Smithsons iconic land art masterpiece on the Great Salt Lake

More markers nearby

• Promontory Monument (4) Markers — steps away
• Golden Spike - Joining of the Rails — steps away
• Competition, 1869 — steps away
• Sagwitch Timbimboo, Shoshone Chief — 28 mi