Mile 1480: Route Alternate
At Mile 1480 (west side of Fish Springs, UT), the XP Bikepacking continues north on the Pony Express-Overland Stage Trail to go around the north end of the Fish Springs…
Mile 1502: Willow Springs Station
"A great deal of controversy has arisen over the location of the Willow Springs Station. Descriptions given by Nick Wilson (an Express rider) and Sir Richard Burton do not describe…
Mile 1491: Boyd/Butte/Desert Station
"Fourteen miles from Fish Springs Station, via a road around the north end of the Fish Springs Range and nine miles over the pass to the west of the station. Although…
Mile 1478: Fish Springs/Smith Springs/Fresh Springs Station
"J.H. Simpson placed two mail stations in this area: the one at Fish Springs first used by Chorpenning and another about three and one-quarter miles north at Warm Springs. The…
Mile 1469: Blackrock/Butte/Desert Station
"The authors have not located the site of Blackrock Station. Reconnaisance and infrared photographs have also failed to produce any evidence. Only a vandalized monument marks its general location. Initially…
Mile 1363: Rockwell’s Station
"Rockwell's Station was named after the operator Orin Porter Rockwell. Rockwell earlier served as Brigham Young's bodyguard (1830's) and was a Danite (member of the Mormon protection group, organized in…
Mile 1455: Dugway/Dugout Station
"Water for Dugway Station had to be hauled from Simpson's Springs. Although three wells were dug over several years, one reaching a depth of 120 feet, no water was found.…
Mile 1421: Aunt Libby’s Dog Cemetery
"Burial plot. Enclosing graves (west side) of two men and a child emigrants of the early eighteen sixties. "Original wall erected in 1888, By Mrs. Horace (Aunt Libby) Rockwell to shelter…
Mile 1444: Riverbed Station
"The station was built in an old riverbed formed by evaporation of Lake Bonneville. The water contained in the northern portion of the great inland sea had a greater surface…
Mile 1436: Simpson Springs/Pleasant Springs/Egan’s Springs/Lost Springs Station
"Simpson Springs became one of the most prominent stations in the West Desert due to the availability of excellent water. Chorpenning, living in a Sibley tent first developed the area…
Mile 1429: Government Creek/Davis Station/Government Well Station
"There is some doubt as to whether the structures at this location were used by the Pony Express. There is record of the army digging a well here for an…
Mile 1421: Point Lookout/Lookout Pass/Jackson’s Station
"Originally, Lookout Pass was identified by Simpson as General Johnston's Pass. The mail contract called it Point Lookout. From the top of the pass one can look west into the…
Mile 1411: Rush Valley/Bush Valley/Faust/Doc. Faust’s/Meadow Creek Station
"Although identified in the 1861 mail contract as Bush Valley, it is apparently a typographical error or was copied as a result of a misinterpreted hand-written contract. This station was…
Mile 1403: East Rush Valley/Pass/Five Mile Pass/No Name Station
"East Rush Valley Station, built as a dugout, was listed by Howard Egan as being very active even though it is not identified as a contract station. The military road…
Mile 1392: Camp Floyd
"The station was located within John Carson's Inn in Fairfield and saw use for both the Express and stage travel. The adobe building was built in 1858. It is still…