Mormon Trail

Between 1846 and 1869, more than 70,000 Mormon's traveled west to escape religious persecution. Most of them walked the nearly 1,500 miles from Iowa to the Salt Lake Valley of what is now Utah. Long stretches of the trail can still be seen in Wyoming, especially over Wind River Country’s South Pass where the handcart path merged with other pioneer trails leaving ruts that can still be seen and followed today. read more...