This is the Place State Park

Before it was a heritage park full of costumed interpreters and relocated pioneer buildings, this was simply the place — the spot where Brigham Young is said to have ended the trek in 1847, marked first by a towering monument in 1947 and later set aside as a state park. The marker remembers that civic act: the decision to protect the canyon mouth as public ground rather than let it be built over. What stands here now is a layered thing — a real historical site, wrapped in a living-history museum.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — steps away
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.8 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.1 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 2.0 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• First Company of Pioneers into the Valley — steps away
• Eyes Westward Statue — steps away
• Angels Are Near Us — steps away
• Bodil Mortensen Statue — steps away