Mormon Row Historic District

Mormon Row Historic District is a collection of historic farm homesteads stretching along a road at the southeastern edge of the national park and set against a prominent mountain backdrop. The site comprises several dwellings, barns, and remains of older structures that together form a rural ensemble from the early 20th century.

Mormon settlers arrived from Idaho during the 1890s and established farms in this area, working the land over several decades. The site was later incorporated into the national park and now stands as a monument to that early settlement history.

The homesteads display traditional building styles that emerged over a hundred years ago and speak to visitors through their rustic simplicity. You can still see how these structures were constructed from locally sourced materials and fit naturally into the surrounding land.

The site sits along a public road and is free to access for visitors who want to walk around or stop to look. The best time for photography is in early morning or late evening hours when the sun hangs low on the horizon and casts a warm, soft light.

An intricate network of hand-dug ditches carried water from central sources across the land to individual fields over the course of many years. This system reveals the ingenuity and persistence of early settlers who built a functioning irrigation setup without modern equipment.