Lodging for Travelers of the American West

Lodging for Travelers of the American West. . , Built in 1858 by Mormon pioneer John Carson, the Stagecoach Inn was built next to Camp Floyd Military camp. The inn served as a hotel and a rest stop on the Overland Trail. Passengers and mail were delivered by horse-drawn carriages, on a route starting in St. Louis, Missouri, and ending in San Francisco, California. The trip took between 22 and 25 days., Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and his oldest brother, traveled the route on their way to Nevada in 1861., "At eight in the morning we reached the remnant and ruin of what had been the important military station of “Camp Floyd." , - Mark Twain. Roughing It, 1872. , The old stagecoach inn was the first stop on the Overland Route from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. It was also a Pony Express stop for 18 months. , The popularity of stagecoach travel diminished with the 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Despite this, the inn continued to operate until 1947, serving mainly travelers between Salt Lake City and the mining camps of western Utah and eastern Nevada., (caption) Sketch by Cecil Doty, Used in Utah Hist. Quarterly, Jul. 1958. , (caption) The century-old Stagecoach Inn, as it appeared when it was deeded to the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission in 1958., (caption) Utah State Park and Recreation Commission restored the century-old Stagecoach inn and opened it to the public on May 16, 1964.