Sycamore Grove

Four hundred and thirty-seven people left Payson, Utah in March 1851 with a hundred and fifty wagons, and the advance party reached this grove on the eleventh of June. They stayed for months. One traveller called it the most beautiful spot, a small valley of large sycamores with clover nearly waist high, and it had been a watering stop on the Old Spanish Trail long before any of them saw it. The purchase of the Lugo rancho did not close until October, so the colony was a camp first.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 7.8 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 8.0 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.
• Original McDonald's Site — 8.7 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.

More markers nearby

• Garcés-Smith Monument — 3.9 mi
• Mormon Road — 6.6 mi
• Stoddard-Waite Monument — 7.3 mi
• Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument — 7.5 mi