Martin's Cove Lower Monument

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47600 State Highway 220
Alcova, WY 82620
+1 (307) 328-2953
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org
While walking the Martin’s Cove trail, you will see several monuments and sculptures commemorating the rescue of the Martin, Hodgetts, and Hunt companies. In 1992, President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the Martin’s Cove Monument as a memorial to those who suffered and died in the cove.
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Lovely and sobering
8/29/2021

Having had ancestors who traveled this trail by handcart, by wagon, and walking we were quite intere...

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Hot, Heartbreaking, Hot
8/27/2020

I am very glad that we walked all the way out to Martin’s Cove. There was a feeling of awe about all...

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Interesting and staffed by really nice folks
10/25/2019

I hiked in and saw the small canyon. It is well worth it but the last bit could be challenging for p...

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