Last updated: December 11, 2023
Place
Weber Station
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Quick Facts
Location:
Along Echo Canyon Road, passing a Utah Department of Transportation facility at odometer mile 9.7 and the I-80 Echo interchange at mile 10.7
Significance:
The Weber Station (Echo, UT) began as a settler’s isolated log cabin and blacksmith shop in 1854 and later served as a stage stop and Pony Express home station.
Pony Express Utah No. 4 Contract Station
The Weber Station (Echo, UT) began as a settler’s isolated log cabin and blacksmith shop in 1854 and later served as a stage stop and Pony Express home station. As Union Pacific workers poured into the area in 1868, a rollicking railroad boom-town sprang up around the station. Local lore holds that several artifacts and a love letter to a Pony Express rider were discovered hidden in the walls of the old station building when it was torn down years later, but that story, like many others concerning the Pony Express, has been discredited. The stone building in which the items supposedly were found was built around 1866, at least six years after the Pony Express shut down.
Site Information
Location (Along Echo Canyon Road, passing a Utah Department of Transportation facility at odometer mile 9.7 and the I-80 Echo interchange at mile 10.7.)
A granite memorial commemorating the station (nothing remains of the building itself) is at a turnout on the right at odometer mile 11.3. The site is also marked with Summit County’s brown tour sign No. 17 and with a silver-colored Pony Express marker post.