I-80 Today it's called Interstate-80, a major link between east and west. But, when the pioneers came down this canyon on July 16, 1847, the pioneers followed a crooked road through a very narrow canyon named Echo, for obvious reasons.

William Clayton:

"THERE IS A VERY SINGULAR ECHO IN THIS RAVINE, THE RATTLING OF WAGONS RESEMBLES THE CARPENTERS HAMMERING AT BOARDS INSIDE THE HIGHEST ROCKS."

Orrin Porter Rockwell returned with a report from the group that had been sent ahead several days before. They'd found the route blazed a year earlier by the Donner-Reed party. It was the trail that would take them over the Wasatch Mountains and into the Salt Lake Valley.