Numerous landmarks are along the trail in Wyoming including Independence Rock, [[Ayres Natural Bridge]], and [[Register Cliff]].
===Utah===
In 1847, [[Brigham Young]] and the Mormon pioneers departed from the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming and followed (and much improved) the rough trail originally recommended by [[Lansford Hastings]] to the Donner Party in 1846 through the Wasatch Mountains into Utah.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm |title = An Emigrant Train from the top of Big Mountain entering the valley of the Great Salt Lake |website = Utah Division of Parks and Recreation |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060211220440/http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm |archive-date = February 11, 2006 }}</ref> After getting into Utah, they immediately started setting up irrigated farms and cities—including Salt Lake City. In 1848, the Salt Lake Cutoff was established by Sam Hensley,<ref name="Hensley">{{cite news |url = http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/060594.html |title = It's Sam Hensley-Not Hansel-Who Discovered Cutoff |last = Schindler |first = Hal |date = June 5, 1994 |newspaper = The Salt Lake Tribune |pages = D1 |access-date = September 17, 2009 |archive-date = September 10, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090910124058/http://www.historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/060594.html |url-status = dead }}</ref> and returning members of the Mormon Battalion providing a path north of the [[Great Salt Lake]] from Salt Lake City back to the California and Oregon trails. This cutoff rejoined the Oregon and California Trails near the City of Rocks near the Utah; Idaho border and could be used by both California and Oregon-bound travelers. Located about halfway on both the California and Oregon trails many thousands of later travelers used Salt Lake City and other Utah cities as an intermediate stop for selling or trading excess goods or tired livestock for fresh livestock, repairs, supplies, or fresh vegetables. The Mormons looked on these travelers as a welcome bonanza as setting up new communities from scratch required nearly everything the travelers could afford to part with. The overall distance to California or Oregon was very close to the same whether one "detoured" to Salt Lake City or not. For their use and to encourage California and Oregon-bound travelers the Mormons improved the Mormon Trail from Fort Bridger and the Salt Lake Cutoff trail. To raise much-needed money and facilitate travel on the Salt Lake Cutoff they set up several ferries across the [[Weber River|Weber]], Bear, and [[Malad River (Gooding County, Idaho)|Malad]] rivers, which were used mostly by travelers bound for Oregon or California.