Nichols Family - Mormon Trail 2002

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Mormon/Oregon Trails 2002: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah
August 9-12 & 16, 2002 - To view a map, Click Here for the Route from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City. Click here for the follow-up trip route down Emigration Canyon.

While returning from ATC school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sietske and I decided to join the pioneer trek west along the Mormon and Oregon Trails. We hooked up with the "trail" at today's Omaha, Nebraska (Winter Quarters).

Iowa
Council Bluffs - No images
Nebraska
Winter Quarters (Omaha): Visitor Center Winter Quarters (Omaha): Pioneer Cemetery Winter Quarters (Omaha): Chad & Sietske on the Temple Grounds Winter Quarters (Omaha): Florence Mill Freemont Airport Columbus Airport: Airport Entrance Columbus Airport: Columbus Flight Service Station Lone Tree Big Blue River Hastings Airport Grand Island Airport (the Tower) Kearney Airport Sutherland - where the train that stopped literally changed the course of our vacation Bridgeport Camp (Brigham Young campsite) Chimney Rock - Looking East from the Visitor's Center Rebecca Winters' Grave Scottsbluff National Monument - Looking northwest from atop the bluff	(The Winter Quarters Temple)
Wyoming
(Pioneer Wagon Ruts at Guernsey)	Fort Laramie Register Cliff Register Cliff: Writing on the wall Guernsey Ruts Sunset on the Trail -Rockies in the background Independence Rock - eerily similar to Ayer's Rock in Australia, but on a much smaller scale Devil's Gate Martin's Cove
Utah
Echo Canyon Henefer Hogsback Summit Mormon Flat Last Camp Historic Site Donner Hill Historic Site This is the Place Monument	(The Family at This is the Place)