Mormon Trail & Camp Cajon Markers

Wagon Trail Rd. (I-15 Exit 131), Cajon Pass, CA
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This monument was erected in 1917 and dedicated to the pioneers of the Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trails. It is located on Wagon Wheel Trail on a 2-Lane Route 66 dead end. This approximately marks the intersection of the Santa Fe and Salt Lake (Morman) Trails. National Trails Highway and Route 66 would more or less the same path through the Cajon Pass from this point to San Bernardino.

Take exit 131 from I-15, it is on the east side of the road, just past the McDonalds on Wagon Wheel Trail which the east frontage road.

GPS: 34.306235, -117.466783

A few feet away from the Morman Trail marker is a marker for Camp Cajon, it is on the right in this photo. It wasn't quite finished when we went by in 2019, but it has since been finished.

In 1917 William M. Bristol came up with the idea of building a welcome station and rest area in Cajon Pass. Camp Cajon was dedicated on July 4, 1919. A quotation was set on a tablet in stone sign makring the camp's entrance. It read "We have builded a shrine to friendship, good-fellowship and cheer, That all who cross our threshold may find refeshment here."

In 1926 National Old Trails which ran right through Camp Cajon.became part of Route 66. In 1938 floods destroyed the camp burying it under piles of rocks and sand.

Photo(s): 2019