California, Mormon Pioneer, & Pony Express Trails ~ Echo Canyon - Historic Corridor
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N 40° 59.386 W 111° 24.162
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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
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member cosninocanines
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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.

Road of Trail Name: California, Mormon Pioneer, & Pony Express Trails

State: Utah

County: Summit

Historical Significance:
This portion of the California Trail through Echo Canyon was near the start of the Hastings Cutoff that was initially blazed by the Donner Party, soon followed by Brigham Young's Mormons, then used by many California-bound travelers as a "short-cut" that reduced the trip by about 200 miles. In later years used by the Pony Express Route.

Years in use: 25

How you discovered it:
I stopped at this rest area to take care of some necessary matters and saw the interpretive sign.

Why?:
Echo Canyon provided the only feasible route through the mountains on this alternate route through Utah.

Directions:
Echo Canyon Eastbound Rest Area just east of the junction of Interstate 80 with Interstate 84

Book on Wagon Road or Trial: Not listed

Website Explination: Not listed
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