1/7/2017
1/7/2017
1/7/2017
1/7/2017
Landmark information
- Location:
County rd S2 (pm 25.7), 8.6mi S of Hwy 78, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
1/5/2017 - Date Most Recently Visited:
1/7/2017 - GPS Coordinates:
N 33 0.895, W 116 26.571
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Box Canyon
The old way variously known as Sonora, Colorado River or Southern Emigrant Trail and later as Butterfield Overland Mail Route traversed Box Canyon just east of here. January 19, 1847, the Mormon Battalion, under command of Lt-Col. Philip St. G. Cooke, using hand tools hewed a passage through the rocky walls of the narrow gorge for their wagons and opened the first road into southern California.