The Overland Stage

For a few short years, the fastest news in America passed near here. The Pony Express galloped mail from Missouri to California in about ten days in 1860 and 1861, until the transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete almost overnight. Overland stagecoaches carried the mail and passengers along the same corridor, changing horses at stations spaced a dozen miles apart. Salt Lake City sat squarely on the route, a vital waypoint between the settled East and the Pacific. This marker remembers the riders and drivers who kept that thin line of communication open.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 3.1 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Emigration Canyon — 3.7 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 3.9 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 4.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Willard Richards — steps away
• Handcart Companies — steps away
• 1997 Sesquicentennial Trekkers — steps away
• Horace A. Sorensen — steps away