Days of '47 Encampment Park

One of the first places the Saints stopped when they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 was about 1700 South and 500 East. Their first few days were spent scouting around the valley in the eastern area to look for water, shelter, wood and such.

This was the forward party that came into the valley a few days before Brigham Young, who was ill at the time. Later the group moved further north near downtown Salt Lake to settle and build the city.

That corner now has a miniature park showing names of people in the traveling party carved into stones.

I paid the spot a visit a few weeks ago to see what it had to say.