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.

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.
• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 16 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.

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