Stoddard-Waite Monument

Sheldon Stoddard and Sidney P. Waite came down this pass as young men in 1849, on the wagon road from Salt Lake. Sixty-three years later they helped build the concrete spire that commemorates them, and in May 1913 they stood at its dedication and were honoured by name. Five years on they helped raise the second monument a few hundred yards up the road. It is an odd and rather good thing, a pioneer memorial put up by the pioneers while they were still alive to attend it.

What the plaque says

Sheldon Stoddard, Sydney P. Waite came over this trail 1849, helped erect this monument 1912.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cajon Pass — 2.6 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.
• Lake Gregory — 11 mi
  A New Deal dam built by a Redlands orange grower, for the opposite reason to every other lake on this mountain.
• Kaiser Steel Mill Site — 15 mi
  The mill that made Fontana a steel town, gave the country Kaiser Permanente, and drew a color line at Base Line Road.
• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.

More markers nearby

• Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument — steps away
• Mormon Trail Monument — 4.8 mi
• Sycamore Grove — 7.3 mi
• Garcés-Smith Monument — 7.6 mi