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Follow in the footsteps of over 250,000 emigrants who traveled to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840s and 1850s-the greatest mass migration in American history. In excess of 25,000 gold seekers came through Salt Lake—stopping for provisions and to trade animals. More than 1,000 miles of trail ruts and traces can still be seen across 10 states on the California National Historic Trail. - NPS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1513525064341-DI69VL23SK9FK4TAHCHL/Mormon.Trail.map.png Trail History Download or view the PDF map at NPS to see details of the Mormon Pioneer Trails and read about their journey along the trail. 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Handcart Company, East Canyon, UT. Photograph by Steve Berlin. As dawn breaks across the Wasatch Range and the morning sun's first rays touch the mountain tops, the handcart company is on its way. First comes the long, steep pull to the top of Big Mountain and in the afternoon, the hot climb up Little Mountain where they will camp for the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515949911682-G7SQWIXMRA61U089NEH0/Mormon_Trek_Re-enacted_p7_red_dark_sharp.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 2, 1897 near mouth of Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Salt Lake Tribune. Just as one would do so 100 years later, in 1897 for the 50-year Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Mormon Trail, a re-enactment wagon train enters the Salt Lake Valley. This view is looking generally south from the bench north of Emigration Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515942732983-F81F61D61FFBEAFSND0W/Reenact+East+Cnyn+Handcarts+on+hill3.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 20, 1997 on a hill just north of East Canyon reservoir, East Canyon, Utah. This scene depicts, Handcart Struggles. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This handcart was made in Russia, pulled across Siberia and Ukraine and flown from Moscow to Salt Lake City for the final leg of the trek. It bears gifts made by members of the LDS Church in several Slavic countries for the church president. East Canyon Reservoir is seen in the upper right.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515893061037-26RNKF528CARQKLB4JBF/Reenact+Ft+Bridger+Cooking.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments - Re-enactors in the "Authentic Camp"   Made July 1997 at Fort Bridger Wyoming. Re-enactors in the "Authentic Camp." Photograph by Steve Berlin. The "Authentic Camp" docents from Old Deseret Village at The Place State Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are shown having a pioneer supper. This living history group was with the company throughout the trek and adhered as closely as possible to the means and methods of pioneer times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515953319031-CP3HGK896OOM43IBE9VC/Reenact+ThisIsPlace+Handcart.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 24, 1997 at This is the Place State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Handcart - The Last Few Feet. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This happy man has come through all the way from Winter Quarters, Nebraska, more than 1,000 miles. With the This Is The Place Monument over his shoulder he has heard the last of the speeches, songs and tributes, but not yet the final cheers and accolades of the vast and admiring crowd as he pulls his cart the final few feet to the last camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515893601201-81M50U9GUU5XFM62JI46/Reenact+East+Cnyn+Hill+Thumb.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 22, 1997 just north of East Canyon Reservoir, East Canyon, Utah - Formidable Hill. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This steep hill leads directly off the high flat where the company had camped the night and onto the highway which would be used to skirt East Canyon Reservoir. The handcart company had some trouble on the hill holding back their heavy conveyances but all made the descent without incident. Not so the wagons. After one narrowly-averted runaway and finally the out-of-control bolt of a mule-drawn wagon, which resulted in minor injuries to its driver and occupants and the destruction of the wagon, this route was abandoned. The remainder of the company took a longer but more gentle route to the highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515951444516-EPIZMSURGDCO30YQLJBD/Mormon_Trek_Re-enacted_p3_red_dark_sharp_Thumb.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 2_, 1897 near mouth of Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah. Two Yokes of Oxen - 1897. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Salt Lake Tribune. Two yokes of oxen were used on the trek whenever possible but cattle-poor Mormons made do with fewer draft animals than most emigrants on the Oregon-California-Mormon Trail. This view is another looking generally south from the bench north of Emigration Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515947111542-N2ST6YB3TMVHO0IFCXOV/Reenact+ThisIsPlace+Train.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 24, 1997 at the Place State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Triumphal Entry - 50,000 Greeters. Photograph by Steve Berlin. A throng of more than 50,000 cheering, enthusiastic greeters welcomed the re-enactment company as it entered the Salt Lake Valley after nearly 100 days travel over 1100 miles along the Mormon Trail from Winter Quarters, Nebraska to Salt Lake City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515952947487-PC7MVHJ8ZGNYD1YAWI6W/Mormon+Trek+Re-enacted+p9d+Q50.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 2, 1897 Salt Lake City, Utah. Wagon & Handcart 1897. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Salt Lake Tribune. Handcart and wagon meet in this scene from the 1897 Silver Jubilee re-enactment. One hundred years closer to the pioneers than today's re-enactors, it is instructive to examine the picture's details. The team and wagon are the same as those in the lead of the previous picture.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515943230783-3XJWGOP9P66HVMA5E5PO/Reenact+East+Cnyn+Hill+Accident.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 22, 1997 just north of East Canyon Reservoir, East Canyon, Utah. Photograph by Steve Berlin. When apparently the weight of the wagon they were hitched to overcame this pair of mules on a steep hill, they began to run downhill at top speed spilling the driver, who broke his arm and crashing the wagon box into the hill slightly injuring the passengers. Having broken off the front wheels, axle and tongue the team continued to run until the animals went down in the brush and rocks. Once freed from the wreckage, the mules jumped to their feet, appeared unhurt and and stood quietly. The accident was videotaped by the many domestic and international crews covering the last few days of the trek and the dramatic footage aired around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515953090573-9UNPYMNAALF5O4DADYG6/image-asset.jpeg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 24, 1997 at This is the Place State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Wagon Train Scout. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This rider served as scout for the company across Wyoming and Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515950878819-UALTRFW9AJVCGRFLJPBN/image-asset.jpeg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 24, 1997 at This is the Place State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Team of Oxen. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Wagon and team of oxen enter Salt Lake Valley. Although ox teams were the most common draft animals on the trail in pioneer times, none made the entire trip in the reenactment company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515950187668-3J494PKNQVBOBL6QGM0U/Mormon_Trek_Re-enacted_red_dark_sharp.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 2, 1897 near mouth of Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah. OX Teams 1897. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Salt Lake Tribune. Wagons stop, perhaps for the camera. This view is also looking generally south from the bench north of Emigration Canyon. The undeveloped land in the distance, on the south side of Emigration Creek, is now home to thousands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515951216605-I45LWQ8ZRDWZNYJF7R56/Reenact+ThisIsPlace+Oxen2.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 24, 1997 at Place State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Another Ox Team. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This ox team pulls a wagon made in Germany and shipped to Salt Lake City for the last portion of the trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515944197223-EXXRWKYPENZUKZEP7XD5/Reenact+East+Cnyn+Utah+Wagon.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 22, 1997 just north of East Canyon Reservoir, East Canyon, Utah. Utah State Wagon. Photograph by Steve Berlin. The "Utah Wagon" made the entire 1100 mile journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516817911744-AB3EHGQB27PJNOYXXTIH/UTAHcrossroads.org.convention.2018.octa.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments - Registrations are open! Book your exciting trip on the trails! Discover more about the convention and the many activities that will be available for you and your party at our Convention page. We look forward to your arrival! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515952721456-ME0PDRF343ZFBWUCEWLW/Mormon+Trek+Re-enacted+p8+red+gamma+sharp+Q70.jpg Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments Made July 2, 1897 Salt Lake City, Utah. Triumphal Entry 1897. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Salt Lake Tribune. The Silver Jubilee re-enactment company's greeting by parade-goers is recorded here but no details as to the exact location of the photograph accompany it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515894262570-2BQXUTSV68V0084MIUJ0/71a+Hensley+ruts+looking+east+toward+pilot+springs+from+2+miles+south+on+Park+valley+rd.+DSCN1433.JPG Mormon Trail Wagon Train Re-enactments https://octa-utah.org/mormon-trail-wagon-train-re-enactments daily 0.75 2018-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515956668465-HLQKTPBXE87HZD7BV1RS/Fld+Trip+082497+Rock+Wall+1.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 2. Made about ten miles SW of Fort Bridger, WY, 8/23/97. Gravel Hill Bigelow Bench. Photograph by Steve Berlin. View from Bigelow Bench looking a little south of west. After climbing up from Fort Bridger onto the bench the trail traverses several miles of largely flatland before descending from this point to Muddy Creek, several miles beyond. This was a very steep descent and over time, required considerable road building to make the trail relatively safe, as well as useful for travel in both directions. The track crossing the grass and sagebrush plain to the right of center is the trail. It has seen considerable use this year by folks recreating the handcart experience. The Muddy lies in the distance where a few dark trees can barely be seen just above the plain. The stream flows left to right (south to north). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515959057859-EV1OX2126UKWK71G26GT/Fld+Trip+082497+Near+Ridge+Road.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 10. Made August 23, 1997 near Quaking Aspen Ridge, WY, SW of Ft. Bridger, WY. Caravan Near Quaking. Photograph by Steve Berlin. The field trip caravan consisted of about 15 four-wheel-drive vehicles, most carrying several members. Here we are seen on Quaking Aspen Ridge near the place where the trail veers off the ridge, climbs a little more and starts a steep descent. A sprinkle of rain has made the road slick. The view from the high ridge is beautiful and vast in all directions. This route was used by, among others, Brigham Young. "About 3 o'clock we resumed our journey starting up the valley; we passed over a small hill, and then ascended the dividing ridge by a zigzag road. A she bear and two cubs were seen by Brother Cloward going (up) a high hill on our left hand. We descended by two steep pitches, almost perpendicular, which on looking back from the bottom looks like jumping off the roof of a house to the middle story and then from the middle story to the ground. Thank God no accident happened." (They had locked their wheels for over 1/2 mile) - Thomas Bullock journal of July 10, 1847 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515956367571-PKCKHU1YQKBVWE1JRLA5/Reenact+Ft+Bridger+Cooking.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip - Re-enactors in the "Authentic Camp"   1. Made about nine miles SW of Fort Bridger, WY, 8/23/97. Beauty on Wyoming's High Plains. Photograph by Steve Berlin. There is a spare beauty to the Wyoming landscape along this part of the trail as can be appreciated in this view from Bigelow Bench, south toward the Uintah Mountains in Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515957963458-WD2WQ9MJ7B36UO5QX3UW/Fld+Trip+082497+Fjelsted+Grave.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 7. Made August 23, 1997 at Muddy Creek, WY. Detail of Fjeldsted Grave Marker SW of Ft. Bridger, WY. Photograph by Steve Berlin. The marker reads: PETER ANDERSEN FJLEDSTED BORN APRIL 14, 1821 DIED SEPTEMBER 9, 1859 TRAIL JOURNAL OF JENS C.A. WEIBYE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1862 ON MUDDY CREEK "HERE WAS TWO UNINHABITED HOUSES, AND THERE A SHORT DISTANCE WEST ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ROAD, WAS THE GRAVE OF PETER A. FJELDSTED, WHO DIED WHILE CROSSING THE PLAINS IN 1859. HE HAD PRESIDED OVER THE VENDSYSSEL CONFERENCE IN DENMARK FOR TWO YEARS. ELDER WEIBYE HAVING SUCCEEDED HIM IN THAT PRESIDENCY." The correct spelling of the name is Fjeldsted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515958602477-LZNA1GMF6UN10FF544RI/Fld+Trip+082497+Muddy+Carsonite+Marker.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 8. Made August 23, 1997 at Muddy Creek, WY, about 13 miles SW of Fort Bridger. Carsonite Marker. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Carsonite (a manufacturer's trade name) markers are made from a durable, reinforced plastic material that is flexible, resists weather and may even survive the irresponsible target practice of unscrupulous shooters. Trail identification and marking is a major goal of the Oregon-California Trails Association and Utah Crossroads members, especially Al Mulder, have carefully placed nearly 200 Carsonite markers exactly along the California and Mormon Trail routes in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. This Carsonite marker is just a few steps from the Fjeldsted grave.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515956900461-F4HPW6J1KY82LWSJRS0M/Fld+Trip+082497+Rock+Wall+2.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 3. Made about ten miles SW of Fort Bridger, WY, 8/23/97. Gravel Hill Bigelow Bench. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Another view of the descent from Bigelow Bench toward the Muddy. This gravel hill, strewn with large cobblestones, was the cause of considerable comment by travelers. Among these, William Clayton wrote on July 9, 1847: "The descent from this hill is the steepest and most difficult we have ever met with, being long and almost perpendicular." Richard F. Burton in The City of the Saints, pp.99, who passed this way by stagecoach on August 24, 1860 commented: "After passing the Mormons we came upon a descent which appeared little removed from an angle of 35 degrees, and suggested the propriety of walking down. There was an attempt at a zigzag, and for the benefit of the wagons, a rough wall of stones had been run along the sharper corners." Rocks piled on the downhill side of the track to level and smooth it are still quite obvious and give the appearance of a dugway. Fine artifacts of trail use remain here with abundant rust marks from wagon tires and draft animals' iron shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515958851967-TMUNOW2Y49C40I8SY62R/Fld+Trip+082497+Mulder+Carsonite+Decal.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 9. Made 8/2397 near Muddy Creek, WY. Al Mulder Attaches Decal To Carsonite Marker SW of Ft. Bridger, WY. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Carsonite markers appear to exert an irresistible attractive force on Al Mulder, who stopped at each one we passed in order to add decals indicating California Trail, Mormon Trail and where appropriate, Pony Express Trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515957674163-MB7A5652HLVIX90ADBMX/Fld+Trip+082497+Muddy+Eldredge.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 6. Made August 23, 1997 at Muddy Creek, WY. John Eldredge at Fjeldsted Grave. Photograph by Steve Berlin. After lunch we move 1/4 mile upstream and John Eldredge, field trip guide, takes us to visit the grave of Peter Andersen Fjeldsted in the vicinity of Brigham Young's camp and later, a Pony Express station. The grave was discovered several years ago by John and a friend and fellow OCTA member Jerry Petersen. We were reminded that along the 1100 mile length of the Mormon Trail nearly 7,000 Mormons died - about 6 for every mile of trail. A Carsonite marker and the foundation stones of the Pony Express station are nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515960179901-GJE6YPLD6VVCVZBF47XM/UTAHcrossroads.org.convention.2018.octa.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip - Registrations are open! Book your exciting trip on the trails! Discover more about the convention and the many activities that will be available for you and your party at our Convention page. We look forward to your arrival! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515957457945-GY0TDG114BO84WBT02ZA/Fld+Trip+082497+Roy+Tea.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 5. Made August 23, 1997 - Roy Tea at Muddy Creek, WY. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Roy Tea, seen here having lunch on the bank of the Muddy, guided the field trip along with John Eldredge. Apologies for the too dark snapshot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515957246099-69JM70G5DHBDG9OUDRW2/Fld+Trip+082497+Muddy+Ivory.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip 4. Made August 23, 1997 - George Ivory & Lunch at Muddy Creek, WY. Photograph by Steve Berlin. George Ivory, 1997 President of Utah Crossroads Chapter, addresses the field trip group at lunch on Saturday, August 23, 1997. For those that don't already know, he explains that he traditionally furnishes chips and homemade salsa for these affairs. Tastes great. Lunch was beneath the cottonwood trees on the bank of Muddy Creek about 1/4 mile downstream from where Brigham Young and the Vanguard Company camped and at about the location of a ford. "At three o'clock p.m. we crossed Muddy creek, a beautiful clear stream of water with a pebbly bottom and camped on the west side after travelling 3 miles during the day ... we had a pretty campground. - Thomas Bullock journal of July 9, 1847 "...descended a long steep hill, and found our way down a hollow to a creek called Muddy Fork. ... Upon this stream we camped." - Erastus Snow journal of July 9, 1847 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515956009533-A6GPZYJ4LFL1UC6HEDP6/salt.lake.valley.utah.jpg Sesquicentennial of the Mormon Trail - Field Trip https://octa-utah.org/route-of-the-first-transcontinental-railroad-chapter-field-trip daily 0.75 2018-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515961951489-QX4NGXGIEKT16BLRJK61/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Kiosk.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 3. Made 10/18/97 at Crossroads kiosk site, ~20 miles North of Wendover, UT. Also Hastings Road. Photograph by Steve Berlin. View looking north, Pilot Peak in the background. Al Mulder, at the site of the coming Utah Crossroads Chapter interpretive kiosk, points to important trail landmarks including nearby Bidwell pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962020781-6AAC3XS3VEWBB8M7SHMX/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Salt_Flats_a.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 6. Made 10/18/97 , just east of Lucin, UT. Salt Desert from Donner Spring N. of Wendover, UT. Photograph by Steve Berlin. These salt flats east of Donner Spring, 8-10 miles wide, were the last great, dry barrier on the Long Drive to be crossed before reaching sweet water. Far out on the salt, flagging, stuporous animals could sometimes smell the distant water for miles and had to be restrained from running toward the salvation they sensed. Exhausted and suffering men, women and children who had made the crossing finished these last miles with renewed hope. From Donner Spring many returned across the salt bearing water to slake the thirst of struggling comrades and animals and sometimes to save their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515961975591-24I60H7JD8ABLJ74FGYG/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Donner_Spring.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 4. Made 10/18/97 , ~22 miles North of Wendover, UT. Donner Spring at Foot of Pilot Peak. Photograph by Steve Berlin. This is Donner Spring, life-giving font to many struggling emigrant trains on the Hastings Road. View looking southeast. In conjunction with the 1994 OCTA convention in Salt Lake City the Utah Crossroads Chapter fenced the spring to protect its natural and historic values, erecting several panels that describe the life-saving importance of these waters for people and animals that made it across the arid 83 mile expanse of salt desert to the east, a portion of which is the sliver of white just below the distant mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962223873-04EKJTD8873LC5TQSUFC/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Kelton_Cemetary2.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 13. Made 10/18/97 in Kelton, UT, at Kelton Cemetery W of Promontory Summit, UT. Kelton, UT, is also about 55 miles east of Lucin, UT. Photograph by Steve Berlin. View looking generally south. This is what is left of the cemetery at once-thriving Kelton. Trains met freighters and stage lines here that pushed into the intermountain north of Idaho, Montana and even Oregon. In the 1870s some six million pounds of goods were transferred at Kelton from trains to wagons each year. Goods and passengers also moved from the rich north country onto trains here and all the activity made for prosperous businesses and lively times for residents and visitors alike. Kelton had its share of wild west excitement and even reports of daring stagecoach robberies near town can be found in area newspapers. Railroad facilities were typically sited every ten miles or so of track and Kelton had shops, a turntable, water tank and pumphouse. Redwood pipelines brought water to the town from the Raft River Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962069214-30AQ1PSMLBTVRQI39696/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Al_Mulder_Flat.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 8. Made 10/18/97 , just east of Lucin, UT. Al Mulder Gets a Flat. Photograph by Steve Berlin. No sooner had we started along the old roadbed when crackling over the CB came the message, "Flat tire!" We'd been warned about the possibility that old spikes from the railway could still be lying about and could puncture a tire with ease, but we weren't prepared for how many flat tires we would have and just how devastating most of the punctures were. Before the day was out our group of 15 vehicles had experienced 8 flats! The damage was so great that in most cases treads and sidewalls were shredded making repair of the tires impossible. In this picture Al Mulder goes to work after stopping for someone else's flat and finding one of his own tires was leaking too. Al's was the gentlest of the day's flats - most were blowouts.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962101702-K7PNIRGJW0CZHZ8S3LPW/Transc1b.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 9. Made 1869 in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Historical Photograph - Laying Track on Central Pacific RR near Lucin, UT. Photograph by Golden Spike National Historic Site in Rails East to Promontory. Chinese "coolies" prepared the grade and Irish tracklayers put down the iron on the route across Utah toward the meeting of the rails at Promontory Summit. The Chinese were paid $30 - $35 per month and were credited with managing to save $20.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962185989-1JDBLT4W5N2TWRK5R19H/image-asset.jpeg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 12. Made 10/18/97 a few miles east of Terrace, UT. Another @#! Flat! Photograph by Steve Berlin. Don't let the smile for the camera fool you. Flat tires were no fun. Everyone was impressed at how destructive the rips caused by the big railway spikes were. In the dust and poor contrast, drivers in our caravan could see only a small fraction of the spikes in the road. We met and talked with travelers coming the other way on low-to-the-ground, all-terrain vehicles. From their closer perspective on the road they were able to profess amazement at the number of spikes they were seeing along the route. The problem might have been recent grading along the old railbed. Our BLM guide makes several trips annually across the grade and could remember having only one flat tire over a several-year period.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962167389-1FYMFCLUVJ84CO35T2XO/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Terrace.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 11. Made 10/18/97 at Terrace, UT about 25 miles east of Lucin, UT. Terrace. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Looking approximately north. Terrace is west of Promontory Summit where the Central Pacific rails from the west joined the Union Pacific rails from the east. It was the maintenance and repair headquarters for the CPRR for its Salt Lake Division which encompassed the road from Wells, Nevada to Ogden, Utah. Though railroad use ended by about 1910, in its heyday Terrace not only boasted extensive railroad facilities including a full roundhouse but perhaps 1,000 inhabitants. Nine-tenths of the workers who built the CPRR were Chinese and estimates run as high as 500 such residents of Terrace at one time. No structures remain at the site and like all the railroad installations along the grade Terrace has been extensively looted by bottle and artifact hunters. Deep holes dug by these vandals pit the landscape in every direction. Although artifacts remain, with the area now under active historic preservation management by the BLM and with the involvement of a concerned public, such depredations have decreased considerably in recent years. The sign says: TERRACE - 1869 - CA, 1910, MILE 702.1 FROM SAN FRANCISCO; 1153 FROM OMAHA TERRACE BECAME A POPULATION CENTER FOR NW UTAH, SUPPORTING BUSINESSES, STORES, A SCHOOL, A WELLS FARGO OFFICE, A LIBRARY, A PUBLIC BATH, AND A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (WHO ALSO RAN THE SALOON). BUSINESS BUILDINGS LINED A WIDE AVENUE NORTH OF THE TRACKS WHILE THE MORE SCATTERED RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES WERE GENERALLY TO THE SOUTH. ALTHOUGH ALL WATER IN TOWN WAS PIPED IN, THERE WAS A NICE TOWN SQUARE AND TREE - LINED STREETS IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREA. WHEN THE LUCIN CUTOFF WAS COMPLETED IN 1904 AND THE MAINTENANCE SHOPS WERE MOVED TO CARLIN, NV, THE TOWN BEGAN TO DIE.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962132385-W1NKDFXP482GRQ2RPMXZ/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Trestle.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 10. Made 10/18/97 about ten miles east of Lucin, UT. Wooden Trestle, Ca. Turn of the Century. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Numerous wooden trestles are found along the grade to bridge the many washes that conduct the usually sparse but occasionally torrential rains from the semi-desert flatlands toward the Great Salt Lake. Most are not original construction but replacements installed around the turn-of-the-century. The trestles are not considered safe to support automobiles so modern-day travelers along the old railbed must detour around them. View looking generally north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515960179901-GJE6YPLD6VVCVZBF47XM/UTAHcrossroads.org.convention.2018.octa.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip - Registrations are open! Book your exciting trip on the trails! Discover more about the convention and the many activities that will be available for you and your party at our Convention page. We look forward to your arrival! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962239426-353OTDN3459IJYSCKINP/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_George_Ivory_Flat.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 14. Made 10/18/97 a few miles east of Kelton, UT. The Pres. Gets a Flat. Photograph by Steve Berlin. On this trip not even brand-new tires conferred presidential immunity on George Ivory, President of Utah Crossroads Chapter who gets set to change another ruined one. The only bit of good luck our group could claim for the day was that at least no one's vehicle was struck twice!   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962483482-PMV0S1VE2MUOXOZ7WWTC/Utah_Map_Encarta_Fld_Trip_1097b.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip Click the map to see the complete, larger version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516554003494-9Z7AQ9W3PGYNVYNSEJBR/Field.Trip.101897.Transc.sign.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 7. Made 10/18/97 , just east of Lucin, UT. BLM Sign Transcontinental RR Grade. Photograph by Steve Berlin. The major purpose of our Fall outing was to drive more than 90 miles of roadbed from the original Transcontinental Railroad, visiting historic sites along the way. The sign at the western terminus of the driveable section, made mostly obsolete for railroad use in the early part of the century says: HISTORIC CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD GRADE 1869-1942 THE ORIGINAL GRADE OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD (THE PROMONTORY BRANCH) MAY BE FOLLOWED FROM HERE TO THE EAST, AROUND THE GREAT SALT LAKE TO GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, AND TO THE WEST ABOUT A MILE TO WHERE IT JOINS THE LUCIN CUTOFF AND THE REST OF THE ORIGINAL LINE TO CALIFORNIA. THE COMPLETION OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD AT PROMONTORY SUMMIT MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WESTWARD EXPANSION OF OUR COUNTRY. IT LINKED EAST AND WEST, OPENED UP VAST AREAS TO SETTLEMENT, AND PROVIDED EASY ACCESS TO NEW MARKETS. THE TASK OF CONSTRUCTING THE RAILROAD WAS ENORMOUS REQUIRING SEVERAL YEARS AND UNTOLD HARDSHIPS. THIS 90 MILES WAS THE LAST STRETCH OF ALMOST 800 MILES OF CONSTRUCTION FROM SAN FRANCISCO. IT HAD A NUMBER OF DIFFICULT GRADES WHICH REQUIRED EXTRA ENGINES TO PULL HEAVILY LOADED TRAINS. THE LUCIN CUTOFF, CURRENTLY IN USE, WAS COMPLETED IN 1904. IT CROSSES THE LAKE BY TRESTLE AND BUILT UP GRADE, SHORTENING THE ORIGINAL ROUTE BY 40 MILES AND ELIMINATING THE DIFFICULT GRADES. FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF THE CUTOFF, TRAFFIC DWINDLED ON THE PROMONTORY BRANCH, CONSISTING PRIMARILY OF LOCAL RESIDENTS AND LIVESTOCK. IN 1942, THE RAILS WERE REMOVED SO THE STEEL COULD BE USED IN THE WAR EFFORT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515961898506-EFCKFCC4AGU3D3RTDVHJ/Reenact+Ft+Bridger+Cooking.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip - Re-enactors in the "Authentic Camp"   1. Made 10/18/97 at Crossroads kiosk site, Near Pilot Peak ~20 miles North of Wendover, UT. Photograph by Steve Berlin. View looking north, just inside Nevada. The fifteen cars in the caravan stop and their occupants visit the site where Utah Crossroads Chapter will erect an interpretive kiosk describing the significance of this area in trails history. Jan Maynard is seen here with Pilot Peak, beacon to emigrants crossing the great Salt Desert in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515961927352-KZ2UER6DXTU9KYF4VZNM/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_Kiosk2.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 2. Made 10/18/97 at Crossroads kiosk site, ~20 miles north of Wendover, UT. Bidwell-Bartleson Route. Photograph by Steve Berlin. View looking west. Roy Tea, our field trip guide, talks to the group. On this site located in Nevada a few miles south of Donner Spring, Utah, the Crossroads Chapter will erect an interpretive kiosk to educate the public about this significant section of trail. The trace that traverses the photograph from right to left was pioneered by the Bidwell-Bartelson Party of 1841 the first overland emigrants to California, is the road taken by the Donner Party and others in 1846 and by at least hundreds of argonauts bound for California during the Gold Rush years of 1849-50. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962265518-W9BU2Q8D2R5RX289N8O1/image-asset.jpeg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 15. Made 10/18/97 about 24 miles west of Promontory Summit UT. Final Miles. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Toward the end of the day, as the shadows lengthened and we neared Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit colors deepened and we left behind the scattered vegetation of the semi-desert and traveled through thick grease-wood and bunch grass.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962003805-17NRGJOJN962O7B2HBAN/Fld_Trip_101897_Transc_George_Ivory.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 5. Made 10/18/97 , ~22 miles North of Wendover, UT at Donner Spring. George Ivory at Donner Springs. Photograph by Steve Berlin. Utah Crossroads Chapter President, George Ivory, standing inside the fence erected by the chapter to protect the site, describes Donner Spring, its history and current status to the group. The spring is located on the Stephens Ranch and is open to the public. The chapter has provided printed literature at the here in addition to the interpretive signage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515962288942-5HVUHORU8H0Y532A9J8O/Ten_Miles_of_Track_in_One_Day.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip 16. Made 1869 just west of Promontory Summit. Historical Photograph - Ten Miles of Track in One Day! Photograph by Southern Pacific Railroad in Rails East to Promontory The race to build its railroad was a high-stakes enterprise for each company. Work on parts of the grades had extended so far ahead of actual track-laying that the Central Pacific may have been building road in Wyoming while the Union Pacific graded into Nevada. Even after Promontory Summit had been chosen for the meeting of the rails competition remained high. Early in 1869 Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific boasted that his crews could lay ten miles of track in a single day. UP workers laughed at the claim. On April 28, 1869 CPRR Chinese coolies and Irish track-layers set out to prove it. In a feat of organization, skill, strength and determination not equaled in the annals of railroad building before or since, by lunch these men had put down six miles of new track and by the end of the day the team had laid its full ten miles. Each track layer had lifted 125 tons of iron. Over 25,000 ties, more than 3,000 rails and 14,000 bolts had been set. To prove the road was good an engine ran up and back at high speed. A sign still commemorates the men's epic accomplishment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515956009533-A6GPZYJ4LFL1UC6HEDP6/salt.lake.valley.utah.jpg Route of the First Transcontinental Railroad Chapter Field Trip https://octa-utah.org/the-hastings-trail-from-grantsville-utah-to-donner-spring-utah daily 0.75 2018-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515968224510-TMM4CYO0S1FUK4251HYN/Hastings_Map4.gif The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah Approximate Route of The Hastings Trail From Grantsville to Donner Spring. From maps prepared by Roy D. Tea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478376509-UT8QL14A65UL7QJ06VK1/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Trackmaster_E_of_Floating_Island2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 16. Made 10/61, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Marking the Road. Photograph: Copyright © 1961 Roy D. Tea. View looking west. Hastings/Donner-Reed Trail runs from left center to upper right, between the two men. The trail is lighter in color because it has been compacted some by the wagons and animals, allowing a little more white salt to fill the slight depressions. Floating Island is at the right and at greater distance, stretching across the right two-thirds of the skyline, is Silver Island. Phil Marstella stands by a 2" X 2" stake he and professor Derle Thorpe of Utah State University (in the red cap) have just placed to mark the trail. The tracks were made by the Trackmaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477189958-QBD714O8Z27RLHE41EWL/Roy+Tea+Timpie+Point+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 2. Made 1995 at Timpie Point, Skull Valley, UT. The Trail Toward Timpie Point, Tooele Valley, UT. Northwest of Grantsville, Utah. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. View generally northwest toward Dolomite Point. This picture was made a little farther along than the previous one and looking in the opposite direction. The Hastings Trail worked its way along the valley floor on its way to rounding Timpie Point, a few miles beyond here. Timpie Point is the northernmost extent of the Stansbury Mountains and the place where the road enters Skull Valley. The foothills in this view are the east flank of the Stansburys. Wetlands to the right of this location kept the trail tucked up against the foothills from here until it entered Skull Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477819136-EWSS1ZM5QSFQ8Y9712KP/Stookey_Wagon_Tracks2b.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 11. Made: 9/36 Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Approaching The Big Bend - Historical Photograph, 1936. Photograph: Copyright © 1936-50, Dr. Walter M. Stookey. This photograph is from Fatal Decision, The Tragic Story of the Donner Party, Dr. Walter M. Stookey, Salt Lake City: 1950. Dr. Stookey, a Grantsville, Utah physician had an avid interest in the Donner Party and the Hastings Trail across the salt desert. In his book he captions the picture, which appears on page 103, as follows: "Photograph of wagon tracks of Donner Party across Salt Flats made September 1846. Photo taken September 1936 by Dr. Walter M. Stookey." The view is northwest toward Floating and Silver Islands. Floating Island is the dark object at the top of the plain in the center of the picture. Here the trail proceeds west before reaching the "Big Bend" where it turns northwest toward Silver Island Point. This view shows the remarkable preservation of surface indications of the tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1515960179901-GJE6YPLD6VVCVZBF47XM/UTAHcrossroads.org.convention.2018.octa.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah - Registrations are open! Book your exciting trip on the trails! Discover more about the convention and the many activities that will be available for you and your party at our Convention page. We look forward to your arrival! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516479058933-BEB0LZNYCZ32QOAJLJ64/Roy+Tea+Donner-Reed+Pass+to+E+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 28. Made 1995, Silver Island, Great Salt Desert, Utah. Donner-Reed Pass. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. The trail kept to the flats and rounded a rocky point before ascending a low saddle between Silver Island and Crater Island. Although separate toward the end of the Lake Bonneville era, these two islands today are one continuous landform. This is the OCTA Carsonite marker on the saddle, now called Donner-Reed Pass. The view is southeast toward the mud flats of the salt desert. In 1929, Charles Kelly interviewed an eighty-year-old rancher named Eugene Munsee who 50 years before had homesteaded the land around a spring 2 miles south of Donner Spring. Among other interesting facts, Mr.Munsee told Kelly that water could be found on Silver Island in two places including a cave not far from the trail. In extensive investigations of the island searching for road-building material in the 1960s, Roy Tea did not discover any large water sources but did find a cave on the west side of the island and south of the trail where a few drops of water dripped from its ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478642637-WJY6DDCYPUCW4O6W5PG8/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Excavation_Close-Up2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 21. Made 11/5/86, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Wagon Mound Archaeological Excavation. Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. Archaeological excavation of a wagon mound by Silver Island Expedition. The semi-circular segments of rust (1 & 2) are all that remain of a wagon wheel. The wagon had been burned - note the black charcoal at lower center (3).     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478619782-9FR8BRBSWUIB51AEJRWS/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Road+Biggest+Excavation+Site+2+%281%29.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 20. Made 1986 Great Salt Desert, Utah. Another View of the Main Archaeology Site. Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. Here is another view from a different angle of this largest of the archaeological digs. The Hastings Trail here runs from top to bottom of the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477262733-E8PJVJPOV0TWA8QITXFQ/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Timpie_Point_Aerial3a2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 3. Made May 1979, Looking SW Timpie Point, Skull Valley, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1979 Roy D. Tea. Looking south. Timpie Point, the northernmost extent of the Stansbury Range is at bottom center. Big Springs is at bottom right below the arrow and just right of the dirt road with the sweeping curve. The Hastings Trail is marked by blue arrows. The straight line to its left is the Lincoln Highway. The trail crosses the straight line on the right which is the county road to Dugway Proving Grounds. Timpie Point is where Jedediah Smith came in 1827 after crossing Nevada from California. As it rounds the point, the trail is found hugging the mountain and there are several sections of nice ruts (arrow at left). OCTA Carsonite markers stand in several places where the trail can be positively located here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478541110-AOHMWSNPTD4ZO0R3Z12S/Wagons_Salt_Desert_Trails_p35.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 18. Made 1929, Great Salt Desert, Utah. Abandoned Wagon Historical Photograph. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved - Photograph: Charles Kelly. This picture of the remains of an abandoned wagon was made by Charles Kelly, early trail enthusiast and self-taught historian and researcher. The black object on the right is the hub from an unusually large wagon wheel and Kelly took this to be James Reed's oversized wagon. The picture appears as Figure 11 on page xxvi of the 1996 edition of Kelly's 1930 book (Salt Desert Trails, Peter H. DeLafosse ed. Salt Lake City: 1996).   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516479035505-4PU2OJ8J0J5ZOA780HOV/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Donner-Reed_Pass_Aerial_sharpened4.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 27. Made Summer, 1963, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Donner-Reed Pass, Silver Island - Crater Island, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1963 Roy D. Tea. View northwest. The blue line approximates the trail which runs from bottom to top. Having proceeded mostly northwest across the flat the trail turns a little to the west at Silver Island Point, lower right. The arrow marks Donner-Reed Pass where the trail crosses the narrow neck of land connecting Silver Island, left, and Crater Island, right. Beyond the pass the trail crosses the final eight miles of flat bearing slightly north of due west before reaching Donner Spring, at the foot of Pilot Peak, out of the picture on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478281229-OVF58TS5JYXY9TXSTAKL/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Trackmaster2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 13. Made 10/61, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. The Big Bend. Photograph: Copyright © 1961 Roy D. Tea. View looking west. Donner-Reed Trail at the "Big Bend." The trail runs from lower right to left center, then curves at the blue arrow to the right behind the trackmaster. The arrow points in the approximate direction the trail takes at this point which is northwest. Floating Island is the closer dark mountain just to the right of the Trackmaster. The mountain behind Floating Island and above the Trackmaster is Silver Island. Pilot Peak is the faint mountain on the distant skyline just left of the vehicle.           https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516479227305-SRWMJFL7GDVOJNZ78Z28/Roy+Tea+Donner+Spring+Aerial+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 30. Made 1994, Donner Spring, Utah. Aerial View of the Saving Waters. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. Donner Spring, its sweet waters providing literal salvation to people and animals coming off the desert 150 years ago is seen here after Utah Crossroads members built a protective fence around it. A kiosk was added with interpretive panels to explain to modern visitors the history of this critical water source. A graded dirt road runs nearby and carries the occasional traveler on what is now a scenic but still remote back-country byway. The enclosure and kiosk were dedicated in conjunction with the OCTA national convention in Salt Lake City, held in August, 1994. More than 300 people attended the emotional ceremony including Marta Lienhard Vincent, an accomplished musician and descendant of 1846 Hastings' Cutoff pioneer Heinrich Lienhard. It had been nearly 150 years since so many people gathered here. At this place of refuge from the salt desert's ravages for her ancestor and so many others, Marta's Highland bagpipes sang Amazing Grace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477780959-MIVHHL35Z7W9ZVTPKAO3/Roy+Tea+Donner+Trail+Before+Dunes+3.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 10. Made 9/23/87 Great Salt Desert, Utah. Approaching the Dunes on the East Side. Photograph: Copyright © 1987 Roy D. Tea. The east side of the Great Salt Lake Desert is marked by sand dunes as well as stretches of flats. Softer ground to the north in this area prevented the emigrants from taking a direct route toward Pilot Peak, at the foot of which, they knew they would find water. Here the trail approaches an area of dunes after passing through a small depression. To climb up on the dunes, the trail curves to the right but then straightens and proceeds nearly due west again. A 6" aluminum pipe can be seen near the center of the photograph which has just been placed to mark the trail by Dan Miller Jr. and Roy Tea.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478718395-MAH0CJRL5E1H16G5YYMI/image-asset.jpeg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 22. Made 11/5/86, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Sharp, 140 Year-Old Wagon Ruts. Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. Archeological excavation of another wagon mound by the Silver Island Expedition. Notice wheel tracks in the mud below the surface and subtle indications of wheel tracks on the surface. It is presumed that in this area the wagon wheels cut through the crust into the softer material below, making hard pulling for the draft animals and leaving deep ruts that filled in over time with the distinct, light-colored gypsum sand the desert winds blow across this flat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478002992-WS8XUCR0WWJ1B33GSA4Q/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Road+Big+Bend+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 12. Made 1971, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. The Big Bend from the Air. Photograph: Copyright © 1971 Roy D. Tea. Here, 12± miles southeast of Floating Island, the trail takes a sharp turn to the right, or northwest, before bearing left again toward Pilot Peak. The mountain does not appear in this photograph, it lies south of the camera's view, but faintly seen on the distant skyline is the northern extent of the Pilot Peak range. Firmer ground to the north made it possible for the pioneers to correct their line of travel here. Numerous small shortcuts across this "Big Bend" are visible on close observation. The bend is very prominent on commercial aerial photographs made for survey and documentation purposes before parts of the trail were flooded in 1987-89. The flooding occurred as huge pumps moved 1.5 million gallons of water per minute around the clock from the Great Salt Lake onto the area generally north of here to alleviate flooding around the lake's shoreline from several years' unusually heavy precipitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478743556-XGXJ0BMSOAT40EHAEME2/Roy_Tea_Salt_Desert_E_of_Silver_Island_2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 23. Made 4/30/1971, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. East of Silver Island. Photograph: Copyright © 1971 Roy D. Tea. Roy Tea stands astride the Hastings Trail which is clearly visible as it strikes out across the flat to pass the north end of Floating Island, the dark mountain on the left. To the right and at greater distance is Silver Island, named for mineral exploration there in the 19th century not for its color, which is ruddy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478885875-7BR3Q6LMGN93VDURL4FC/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Ox_Bone2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 25. Made 11/5/86, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Ox Bone? Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. This photo was taken about a mile east of Floating Island, somewhat off the Hastings Trail, and may be ox bones. Osteologists are invited to comment: Roy D. Tea.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478769885-HJZGAU528YSOAWZVL13T/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_NE_of_Floating_Island2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 24. Made 11/5/86, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Hastings Road NE of Floating Island. Photograph: Copyright © 1971 Roy D. Tea. View looking generally northwest. The Hastings/Donner-Reed Trail is seen at the center of the photograph heading for the Silver Island Mountains. On this portion of the salt mud flat the trail is easily distinguished from the fresh tracks of the modern vehicles and can be identified by the lighter-colored traces across the plain. At the extreme right is Silver Island Point where the wagons went around this mountain barrier. Floating Island is the dark object at the top of the plain on the far left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478325172-64ZH3JF80SEL5H003CYD/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Trail_Sand_Raila.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 14. Made: 9/23/87 Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. The Big Bend. Photograph: Copyright © 1961 Roy D. Tea. Dan Miller Jr. setting a 6" aluminum pipe to mark the Hastings Trail at the Big Bend. Silver Island Range in background. Compare to previous photographs in the exhibition made at this place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477463623-UYUN3XWSERSDY1Z5QOIH/Roy_Tea_Swale_After_Burn_E_Side_of_Cedars2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 5. Made 11/22/95, Looking NW at Cedar Mountains, Skull Valley, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. Al Mulder standing on edge of the Hastings Trail leading to a hogback ridge in Hastings Canyon. At the far end of the swale, Oscar Olson is standing on the trail where it curves to the left to ascend the hogback. Vern Gorzitze is at the rear of the red 4X4. It was necessary for the pioneers to take the hogback ridge to Hastings Pass instead of staying in the canyon bottom because the end of the canyon is too steep for wagons. This swale was revealed after a summer fire cleared the ground of vegetation.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477435230-HP72YMW2JZ589XVM8QMA/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Road+Skull+Valley+Hope+Wells+to+NW+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 4. Made 1971, Looking NW at Skull Valley, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1971 Roy D. Tea. This photograph was taken above Skull Valley several miles south of the previous one. Having proceeded south into Skull Valley far enough to skirt the wetlands, the Hastings Trail is seen here angling sharply back to the northwest as it leaves the area of Hope Wells. Hastings Pass through the Cedar Mountains is the low area in about the center of the skyline to the right of the trail's line. A tiny flow from Redlum Spring in the foothills of the Cedars was the only water known to emigrants between here and Donner Spring nearly 80 miles beyond. Beneath the airplane is about the place where Eliza P. Donner Houghton of the Donner Party describes her mother piecing together a note left by Hastings that appeared to have been shredded by birds: "2 days--2 nights--hard driving--cross--desert--reach water." (See Roy Tea's article on the Hastings Trail from Grantsville to Donner Spring in our Members' Pages section). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516476983364-OF57Z8WGO37AEL7JD8ON/Roy+Tea+toward+Grantsville+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah - Re-enactors in the "Authentic Camp"   1. Made 1995 Near Grantsville, Utah. Looking SE towards Hastings or Twenty Wells. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. This is a view of the Hastings Trail looking southeast toward Grantsville, Utah, about 45 miles west of Salt Lake City. Grantsville was known in the trails era before Mormon settlement as Twenty Wells or Hastings Wells. This portion of the trail was located by OCTA members in 1995. On the right are the Stansbury Mountains, crossed by the Bryant-Russell pack train led by Hudspeth and on the trail a little ahead of the Donner Party in 1846. Travelers on the Hastings spent as much time as they could here to "recruit" their cattle on the plentiful grass and water available as they prepared for the desert ahead. Preparations often took one, two or even more days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478415718-HVF3QDCDVANZ93KMCR12/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Stick2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 17. Made 11/5/86, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. The Stake Still Stands 25 Years Later. Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. View looking northwest. Here, 25 years later, is the stake placed in October 1961 to mark the trail. The trail is the lighter tracks in the center of the picture. Recent all-terrain-vehicle tracks are on the left. Floating Island is left of the white dot at the top of the flat and on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477514137-YVY5KV2O3VESSGRUEJ7U/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Pass+east+into+Skull+Valley+2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 6. Made 1995, Hastings Pass Cedar Mountains, Skull Valley, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. This is the view southeast from Hastings Pass in the Cedar Mountains which furnish the western margin of Skull Valley. Across the valley is the Stansbury Range with Deseret Peak on the right. The trail is along a hogback ridge and can be seen in the lower center of the photograph. Lansford W. Hastings first traveled the road that bears his name in the summer of 1846 and was eastbound. There is some controversy about whether he crossed the Cedar Mountains on that trip at this place or a few miles south. Stansbury, in the area in 1849, thought it was the latter.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478914214-VRCNQJXR0SJM6KN3VCH0/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Map_BW.gif The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 26. The Professor's Map - Great Salt Desert, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1997 Roy D. Tea. This map was created under the supervision of Professor Derle Thorpe of the Utah State University engineering faculty who recorded the distances and bearings during what was termed the Mirage Expedition in 1962. Other members of the party were Professors David Miller and Web of the University of Utah. These three followed the trail from the Knolls flight strip, just west of the Grayback Hills to Donner Spring. Note the Big Bend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477741060-V988XU60PZC6FIC6O206/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Road+E+Side+Salt+Desert2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 9. Made 10/83, Entering the Desert W of Grayback Hills, UT. Great Salt Desert, Utah. Photograph: Copyright © 1983 Roy D. Tea. This is the point where the emigrants descended from the last of the hills, the Graybacks, and entered onto the great desert plain of mud flats and dunes that lay before them for more than 60 miles. The straight roads to the lower right are modern as are the twin tracks of a jeep road stretching away to the northwest. The Hastings Trail is the fainter line parallel to the jeep track and to its right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477547167-Q82Z814XKHFT4O0HZ8QP/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_Hastings_Pass_Aerial.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 7. Made 11/29/72, Hastings Pass - Cedar Mountains, Skull Valley, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1972 Roy D. Tea. View looking northeast. The diagonal ridge in the upper center of the photograph is the summit of Hastings Pass in the Cedar Mountains. The trail comes up a hogback ridge out of the picture to the right. It then follows the ridge north a short distance where it descends a dugway (1). Wagons could easily tip over when sidleing - traversing a steep hill. A dugway is a cut on the side of the hill to decrease the wagons' tilt. Dugways cut as deep ditches could catch the uphill wheels and eliminate sideways slippage. This dugway drops down from the ridge to a mining road (2) which was made subsequent to the trails era and the trail continues off the photograph to the left.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516479202529-S1UI4S4WOAJULPYLZ8JA/Roy+Tea+salt+desert+near+Donner+Spring+sharpened.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 29. Made 5/1/71, Great Salt Desert, UT. Near Donner Spring. Photograph: Copyright © 1971 Roy D. Tea. Looking west. Here, from left to right are Bruce Bloomfield, Quinton Adair and Dan Miller, friends of Roy Tea who are interested in the trail. This mud flat is the last of the salt desert as emigrants descended from crossing Silver Island at Donner-Reed Pass and made the final push to Donner Spring. This photograph was made a couple of miles west of the pass and about seven miles from the water. Pilot Peak, 10,700 feet high and beacon for nearly 100 miles of travel, dominates the view. Donner Spring is a little beyond the far margin of the flat where trees can just be seen left of center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516477710830-QHL41K624S2QCK1W6IJB/Roy_Tea_Hastings_Road_After_Burn_W_Side_of_Cedars.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 8. Made 11/22/95, Swale, West Side of Cedar Mountains, UT. Photograph: Copyright © 1995 Roy D. Tea. Looking east. In this view, taken on the west side of the Cedar Mountains after a summer fire has burned away the sparse desert vegetation, a shallow swale of the old trail can be seen. Oscar Olson is in the foreground and Vern Gorziztze, 1998 president of Utah Crossroads is in the distance. Carsonite (a manufacturer's trade name) markers are made from a durable, reinforced plastic material that is flexible, resists weather and may even survive the irresponsible target practice of unscrupulous shooters. Trail identification and marking is a major goal of the Oregon-California Trails Association and Utah Crossroads members, especially Al Mulder, have carefully placed nearly 200 Carsonite markers exactly along the California and Mormon Trail routes in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. This Carsonite marker is just a few steps from the Fjeldsted grave.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478353894-G9Z0XU8AHGO07C0NPF51/Roy+Tea+salt+desert+near+Donner+Spring+sharpened+3.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 15. Made 10/61, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah. Pristine Trail. Photograph: Copyright © 1961 Roy D. Tea. This 1961 photograph of the Hastings Trail was made approximately five miles southeast of the wagon excavations of the late 1980s. This is the very center of the Great Salt Lake Desert. At the time, the trail was essentially pristine and undisturbed. Although a tiny handful of trail enthusiasts had made this part of the crossing in the twentieth century, things have changed since this picture was made more than 35 years ago. In particular, all-terrain vehicles have now made possible access to this part of the desert and although still risky, small but significant numbers of visitors follow parts of the old emigrant roads here today. This area was flooded in 1987-89 as described earlier and when the pumping was stopped and the water receded, several inches of salt covered the trail. Pumping ended nearly ten years ago. Little by little, rain and snow are dissolving the new layer of salt and to the delight of many the trail is reappearing in this area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f4f4888a02c7be42ee177a/1516478583095-OTMN4I9AW3VODJIVS89N/Roy+Tea+Hastings+Road+Excavation+Site2.jpg The Hastings Trail* from Grantsville, Utah to Donner Spring, Utah 19. Made 1986, Great Salt Desert, Utah. Main Archaeology Site. Photograph: Copyright © 1986 Roy D. Tea. Prior to portions of the trail being flooded by the Great Salt Lake pumping project of the late 1980s archeological investigations were undertaken by the Utah State Historical Society to explore the remains of wagons and other artifacts left on the desert. The study was called the Silver Island Expedition. One of several, this is the major study site. Results were published in: Bruce R. Hawkins and David B. 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