California, Mormon Pioneer, & Pony Express Trails ~ Echo Canyon - Historic Corridor
Posted by: brwhiz
N 40° 59.386 W 111° 24.162
12T E 466127 N 4537699
This Interpretive Sign about the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express Trails is located in the Echo Canyon Eastbound Rest Area just east of the junction of Interstate 80 with Interstate 84 in Utah.
Waymark Code: WMG85B
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 01/27/2013
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Echo Canyon
Historic Corridor
Modern roads and highways often follow historic transportation corridors. In the mid 1800s, the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express Trails all passed through this canyon. Today, Interstate 80 in Echo Canyon follows the same historic route.
The Canyon Remembers
Sounds of travelers have lingered between these red canyon walls for hundreds of years. Sometimes, if you listen closely, through the din of today's auto and truck traffic you may hear the echoes of our past:
· the scraping of native Ute and Shoshone travois on the river gravel,
· the crunch of fur trapper's footsteps in the snow,
· the whinnying, braying, and bellowing of horses, mules, and oxen,
· the crack of a teamster's whip,
· the creaking of wagons and stagecoaches,
· and the chugging, hissing, and clickity-clack of a steam locomotive on rails.