An American Exodus
Explore the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail across five states to see the route 70,000 Mormons traveled from 1846 to 1869 to escape religious persecution. The Pioneer Company of 1846-1847 established the first route from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah, covering about 1,300 miles.
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Learn About New Potential Trail Segments
Congress has directed the NPS to evaluate whether some 64 new trail routes should be added. Learn more about the feasibility study that is underway.
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Follow the Trails
See the trail using our Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guides that provide directions where visitors will find trail remnants and interpretive media.
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Funding for Trail Projects
Thinking about an interesting historic trail project, but don’t know how to fund it? Challenge Cost Share is a partnership and funding program.
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Did You Know?
In 1849, Young Charlotte Dansie of Newton Suffolk, England, died in childbirth along with her infant son Joseph while traveling through the South Pass area of Wyoming with her new husband. One in 10 emigrants met a similar fate enroute to a new life in the American West during the 1840s-1870s. More...