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Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,100 km) route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) traveled from 1846 to 1869. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System , known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail .
A prominent rock formation in the pass, where the Mormon Road and the railway merge (at , near Sullivan's Curve), is known as Mormon Rocks. Near the State Route 138 and Interstate 15 junction, the Mormon Rocks are evidence of the San Andreas fault beneath the surface
Sevier River Crossing of the Mormon Road was located above the confluence of the Sevier River with Chicken Creek, in Mills Valley, Juab County, Utah.The Crossing was located 120 miles from Salt Lake City, 24.875 miles south of Nephi and 25.5 miles north of Holden, on the Mormon wagon road to Los Angeles.
Mormon Lumber Road was built in 1852 up Waterman Canyon in San Bernardino County ending near Crestline, California. The Mormon Lumber Road was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.96) on March 29, 1933. The Landmark Monument was built on the side of the road in 1991. Most of the labor to build the road came from Mormon volunteers.
Routes of the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails west of the Rocky Mountains. During the Mexican–American War, the wagon to California road known as Cooke's Wagon Road, or Sonora Road, was built across Nuevo Mexico, Sonora and Alta California from Santa Fe, New Mexico to San Diego. It crossed what was then the northernmost part of Mexico.
In 1847, the wagon road known as the Mormon Road, between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, was pioneered by a party of Mormons under Captain Jefferson Hunt.This wagon road closely followed the western part of the Old Spanish Trail from Parowan, diverting where necessary to allow wagons to pass.
1872 Wyoming Territory, with Emigrant Trail and road to the Montana gold mines marked. The Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, which is the path followed by Western pioneers using the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails (collectively referred to as the Emigrant Trails), spans 400 miles (640 km) through the U.S. state of Wyoming.