WYOMING WIND Riverton MORMON FERRY was the first 20 POCATELLO C The MARTIN HANDCART SOU Miss O The 1856 WILLIE HANDCART commercial ferry on the Platte SOUTH DAKOTA TH ou SOUTH DAKOTA Big N COMPANY of 1856 was caught D r 169 WATERLOO American Falls 20 NE A Missouri National i r T 287 COMPANY was caught along River, established in June 1847. Niobra BR K 86 I in the October blizzard. Rescue 26 18 NEBRASKA ra A O TA e N 789 20 S Recreational River S 75 v RIVER the Sweetwater River in the The FORT CASPAR museum has 85 K River io Ri Pinedale E A u N wagons from Salt Lake City WYOMING x S 71 Fort Dodge n e T October 1856 blizzard. Rescue Fort Caspar/ a full-sized replica of the 59 ak A brought food and clothing. The Valentine River L wagons at the Sweetwater and Mormon Ferry original ferry. 380 89 Lander company continued its trek to Platte Riv Niobrara National River 151 61 Soda Springs Riv er McCammon 30 ROCK CREEK helped save some a temporary refuge at MARTIN’S er Chadron Scenic Riverway 430 of the 500 emigrants who th Gordon RANGE D or 281 SIOUX COVE. Although some 150 died, N I 20 20 63 V crossed over ROCKY RIDGE to Emigrant Gap 25 W RANGE more than 425 handcart 81 CITY a I CASPER p D Douglas Lusk 183 65 s camp at Rock Creek. 18 ipinicon E 287 pioneers were saved. Rock Avenue 20 North 35 IDAHO 20 20 191 * GRANITE Willow * 20 Sioux IDAHO Springs 83 River River MOUNTAINS Prospect r CEDAR RAPIDS etw 220 e Bassett WYOMING Rock 28 e ate v 20 Big Piney Willow Sw r i River (Ryan) Hill Orin R Marshalltown 84 * 385 Lewis C 30 Ice Spring SloughThree Ayres Natural Bridge R R ed Cr a Randolph 71 a 30 Toledo a w 85 59 c r Sandy Crossings c Rocky Ridge Riv h o Sandy *Rock Creek-Willie Handcart e 20 o AMES 91 r Split RockDevil’s Glendo id n Montpelier Cr Jeffrey City Gate e ra 29 Iowa Company Resupply Site: 1856 iobra Little Big Reservoir N 30 River 61 Mormon pioneers built rafts 75 Carroll 189 Pacific Springs Horse (Greasewood) SCOTTS BLUFF was one of the River Little 275 M and floated wagons across the South Pass Willie Handcart Creek-Martin and 30 major landmarks on the trail, El is WINTER QUARTERS (North Herbert Hoover Dry * Muddy Gap 487 k s 15 Green River here. In 1847 they Company Rescue Handcart Company R h Pathfinder Agate Fossil Beds o o 169 NHS Suble * i along with CHIMNEY ROCK to r tte Parting Sandy v n Omaha) was the major camp Cu Site: 1856 Rescue Site: 1856 u 80 built a ferry (later known as to Burnt Reservoir e National Monument HILLS River ff of the L r the east. The grave of REBECCA r i IOWA Martin’s Cove- of the Mormons during the Denison LOMBARD FERRY) and provided Oregon-Calif Ways *Ranch ROCKY A ( orn Near INDEPENDENCE ROCK Porter’s Rock WINTERS, one of the few 183 winter of 1846-47 while they DAVENPORT a commercial service for trav- ia Tr * Heber Springs Guernsey State Park 29 IOWA CITY ail) —named by fur trappers who R Creek identified graves of the 6,000 IDAHO * ood Guernsey Rive 77 prepared to move west. 65 elers. Independence Rock first stopped here July 4, 1830 A nw r Clark 80 North Fontenelle tto or so Mormons who died N Norfolk The Mormons called this area o Fort Laramie o Fork UTAH False PartingSOUTH PASS was called the —emigrants reached the re- C rt 30 Reservoir M crossing the plains, is nearby. h KANESVILLE. Later known as BEAR Big of the Ways River “Cumberland Gap of the Far 287 freshing waters of the Sweet- 275 Sandy 26 G The ELKHORN RIVER ferry was COUNCIL BLUFFS, its importance English Farson water River. Many names and I River Muscatine LAKE Little Sandy Station West.” Here pioneers crossed SAND the first major crossing west to western expansion dates back South River E Oregon - River the Continental Divide on a dates can still be seen on the Alliance Trail 35 North 63 * Martin Handcart Company Refuge Site: 1856 of the Missouri. At a site later West Point to 1804, when Lewis and Clark 67 Register Cliff * L 30 y gentle grade that was easy on rock face. WarmGuernsey Springs Canyon Ruts Site Torrington o DES MOINES Io 89 d Mexican Hill * up 281 known as LIBERTY POLE CAMP, met with Indians near here. w n WYOMING 235 a Fossil Butte a the wagons. * R the 1847 Mormon emigrants Kanesville was a major staging 218 Simpson’s Hollow S * 2 River National Monument River Fort Laramie(Fort Platte NHS Henry Thedford Skunk 61 28 Big R IOWA 372 i organized themselves in a Boyer area for pioneers heading west. Red Rock Skunk 83 r 25 v ( a * 2 e River GREAT DIVIDE BASIN w 30 Seminoe and Fort John) Prayer Circle Bluffs r ILLINOIS 84 e Lar 85 C military manner to provide Reservoir B amie 385 a Reservoir a River Lombard Ferry l Golden Spike Kemmerer if traveling effectiveness and t 71 River 29 k and Green River Camp191 o E Middle Ce e River NHS Logan r North d R e 30 G n Scottsbluff a safety. r r 81 i e i Of the thousands of names a v r r Medicine Bow 69 O e C re Hams e 30 80 Middle r g e carved into the soft sandstone Rebecca Winters Grave An advance party made camp Oskaloosa r Fork 287 GREAT o 189 n a Rawlins The narrow, 16-mile gorge of of REGISTER CLIFF, several 26 Riv * at GARDEN GROVE on April 25, e n NM A er Blair B r River Des ECHO CANYON impressed - hundred are still legible. The Scotts Bluff L o 59 1846. Within two weeks they Walcott Trail Bayard oup River pioneers with its particular Califo GUERNSEY RUTS, as deep as u cleared 300 acres, planted crops, rn CONTIN The early trading post of FORT Gering Fremont te EN ) a Greenfield Moines ia T R 275 echo. The canyon also includes R A five feet, are three miles west. n built log houses, and cut 10,000 Northport 80 Silver k L LARAMIE quickly developed i t or iv MEDICINE From Independence, MO 83 v Monmouth F Granger e 75 o e DIVIDE M Lewis 169 Brigham City stone breastworks built in 1857 80 r Winter Quarters rails for fencing and enough r into a key resupply point for T 30 b Trail 189 65 a 6 GovernmentGenoa Indian Mormon Station Settlement 36 COUNCIL BLUFFS Cold Springs County Park 34 Mt Pleasant to guard against an invasion by n logs for 40 more houses. The RANGE emigrants and a major military * 80 O Ancient Bluff Ruins 183 River (Kanesville) h 92 Orient s Ottumwa federal troops to supress a i site continued as a way station SALT Green M fort. Here the Mormon and P and Ruts NEBRASKA * 34 Creek Rock Springs l Columbus N a rumored Mormon rebellion. s U t Fremont Lakes until 1852. River Oregon-California trails merge. te 25 34 k Middle Mormon92 Church Buttec Chimney Rock NHS 22 R la Indian Lookout B Broken N * ird Platte Ferry Osceola * * B Point wo Loup River Ford Cutler’s Park Macedonia Murray t 63 Burlington * o Bow er StateLiberty Recreation Pole CampArea Mormon Pote Trail RutsPark as Muddy One of two “stations” on the BOW 71 d iv Mount Pisgah Wh re Chariton River T Lisco R iteb Rathbun 81 Elkhorn River Crossing * Creston 67 trail at the onset of the 1847 O C oup 34 Lake A Oshkosh L Cache Cave 80 r Wahoo e S OGDEN Emigrant Springs pioneer journey FORT BRIDGER o 14 r North 69 LAKE e u Ansley Crossing Yellow Creek Camp t 61 e 26 k h 30 Fort W C I 25 92 OMAHA Red Oak became a military post. The Courthouse and Jail Rocks Lewellen v Evanston O St Paul Green Valley State Park i eber MOUNTAINS Nishnabotna River Lacy-KeosaguaBonaparte State ParkMadison Weber River N N Lake Cold Spring Camp R Mormons bought the fort in 85 R M 34 Bloomfield T 385 iver * 84 R Crossing Bridger Trading I 92 N McConaughy * Mormon Trail Garden GroveWayne County 15 1855 to supply emigrant parties. o Appanoose County Historical Museum Farmington U Laramie S Named for its Biblical counter- Post/Fort Bridger E Lake McConaughy 169 State Wayside Area 77 r Historical MuseumCenterville N N State Recreation Area Lo m part, MOUNT PISGAH served as J20 2 T VisitorY OCenter 414 Sand Hill Ruts u 35 204 2 218 A p o Henefer AN Lodg Central City a way station until 1852. Nauvoo L ep Macomb Upon entering Salt Lake Valley C ole Odometer Start 281 n Corydon Fox The Needles Seymour Emigration Canyon Bear River Flaming Gorge Nishnabotan Crossing 191 k Ash Hollow 80 34 West Allerton Crossing and coming to TRAIL’S END, Cree Battalion River Little Mountain ECHO * Muddy Creek Camp Reservoir P 80 Confluence Point 75 96 Summit N la CHEYENNE Kimball 30 80 Leon Des Moines River Mormon pioneers immediately 65 230 tt 230 Sidney Ogallala 71 2 Big Mountain Bear WYOMING e North Rive GRAND Seward Carthage 136 began a permanent settlement r L Brule Shenandoah Montrose a Pass Platte 2 ISLAND River by farming, building shelters, Mormon pioneers devised a 30 Mount Ayr Chariton River Keokuk M Hogsback Summit and Ruts UTAH LINCOLN 34 2 o 80 East Sugar Creek Camp i and establishing local trades.