Sup Pioneer Handcart

For four years, from 1856, the poorest Latter-day Saint converts crossed the plains on foot, pulling all they owned in handmade wooden carts — roughly three thousand emigrants, most British and Scandinavian, too poor for ox teams. Two companies caught by early snow in Wyoming lost more than two hundred dead. Within a decade the railroad ended it: the transcontinental line met at Promontory in 1869, and Ogden became the junction where trains changed crews. The handcart monument stands in that station now, the hardest crossing set against the machine that made it obsolete.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.4 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 6.2 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 7.8 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 15 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Lorin Farr - Miles Goodyear Cabin — steps away
• Belmont Building — 0.5 mi
• Davenport Saloon — 0.6 mi
• London Ice Cream Parlor — 0.6 mi