Located approximately 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Salt Lake City in Tooele County.
Admission: free
Hours: anytime
Iosepa has a unique history in the colonization of Mormon settlements. Its inhabitants were imported from the Hawaiian Islands. Little did they know their new home would be as different from the lush foliage and fertile soil of the Islands as night is different from day.
In August 1889, a small group of pioneers set about surviving in Skull Valley. Their skin, used to the tropics, cracked in the dry desert air. Thoughts of their distant island homes, of lush blooms and ocean waves, must have pricked at them as they stared across the forbidding valley. Their story is a classic tale of courage and endurance, part of the pioneer tradition that still echoes through the modern American West.
In 1989 President Gordon B. Hinckley, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated a monument to the memory of those early Iosepa residents for their unique part in Utah history.
Directions:
Northbound
Take I-15 northbound to I-80 Westbound, take exit #77 toward UT-196/Rowley/Dugway, turn left onto Skull Valley Rd and go about 15 miles until you reach Iosepa
Southbound
Take I-15 southbound to I-80 Westbound, take exit #77 toward UT-196/Rowley/Dugway, turn left onto Skull Valley Rd and go about 15 miles until you reach Iosepa
Compilation of information gathered from www.kued.org/productions/polynesian/history/index.html (and) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosepa (and) www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/iosepa.html
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