Ensign Peak

When members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were forced out of Illinois in 1845, their leader, Brigham Young, received a vision of where they were to go. He said that the Prophet Joseph Smith, the first prophet of the church in this dispensation, showed him a peak with an ensign on it, and told him that if he settled under that peak he would prosper.

Upon entering the Salk Lake Valley, Brigham saw this peak and exclaimed "This is the right place". Two days later, he, and a few others, hiked to the top of the peak. They erected a small flag, and called it Ensign Peak.


In honor of the vision and sacrifice that had brought them there, they erected a stone monument at the top of Ensign Peak.


It was a grueling climb for this small frog. My legs are not very long, and I had to stop more than once or twice. I even found a cave that was just my size, and was tempted to stay for the night, but as the saints of old, I faithfully pressed on.