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South Pass
From State Highway 28, take the dirt Oregon Buttes Road south from the summit of the first hill west of the Sweetwater bridge. Watch for Trail ruts & historic markers in 2.8 miles. Follow trail west ot markers. |
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| This broad pass, the highest point on the trail is at the summit of an almost imperceptible approach to the Continental Divide and was the key to the entire trail system. Every emigrant wagon train and handcart company that went westward rolled through this Pass. There was no other way to go. No other path offered a dependable supply of grass and water plus an easy grade to and through the mountains. On crossing the Pass one pioneer woman noted that, “we have forever taken leave of the waters running toward the home of our childhood and youth…” Two-and-a-half miles farther west the emigration encountered Pacific Springs, the first water flowing westward. Stone monuments mark the Pass and honor Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding, the first white women to cross South Pass. Source: BLM brochure. |
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