Welcome to Montpelier, ID, USA
N 42° 18.870 W 111° 17.856
12T E 475475 N 4684738
This artistic welcome sign is located at the south end of Montpelier, Idaho along Highway 30.
Waymark Code: WMGC22
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2013
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This artistic welcome sign has a brightly colored sign, with a composite rock and masonry base. It is viewable as you approach Montpelier from the south. The sign has artistic elements, including a tan background and a foreground depicting green grass with scattered white and yellow flowers. Along the edges are evergreen trees and the background is a mountain landscape with snow covered peaks. In addition, the sign reads:
Welcome to
MONTPELIER
Home of the National
OREGON / CALIFORNIA
TRAIL CENTER
"Montpelier is a city in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,597 at the 2010 census, down from 2,785 in 2000. The city is the largest community in the Bear Lake Valley, a farming region north of Bear Lake in southeastern Idaho along the Utah border. It was settled in 1863 by Mormon pioneers on the route of the Oregon Trail. Nearby to the east is the border with Wyoming.
Like most western towns, the name has been changed numerous times. First it was known as Clover Creek by Oregon Trail travelers, later it became Belmont and finally was given the name Montpelier by Brigham Young, one of the founding fathers of Mormonism, after a town in his birth state of Vermont. The city was first settled in 1864." (
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