The Arrowhead

The plaque calls it a natural landmark and says it has been a symbol here for centuries. That may not be so. A 2007 study found no mention of the arrowhead in the diaries of the Mormon colonists of the 1850s, who described this valley in loving detail, nor in the 1853 railroad survey that measured the hot springs directly below it; the earliest known reference is an 1867 newspaper column. It may be an advertisement cut into the hillside to sell the springs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 3.1 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 5.9 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 14 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

More markers nearby

• Site of Mormon Stockade — 4.4 mi
• Mormon Road — 4.6 mi
• Daley Toll Road Monument — 5.6 mi
• Garcés-Smith Monument — 6.8 mi