Moab Posts:

• Castleton
• Crescent Junction
• Fisher Towers
• Ken’s Lake
• Lion’s Park
• Miners Basin
• Moab Giants
• Moab’s Sand Hill
• Monitor and Merrimac
• Pinhook
• Plainsfield
• Richardson
• The Spanish Trail
• Valley City

During the period between 1829 and the early 1850s, the area around what is now Moab served as the Colorado River crossing along the Old Spanish Trail. Latter-day Saint settlers attempted to establish a trading fort at the river crossing called “Elk Mountain Mission” in April 1855 to trade with travelers attempting to cross the river. Forty men were called on this mission. There were repeated Indian attacks, including one on September 23, 1855 in which James Hunt, companion to Peter Stubbs, was shot and killed by a Native American. After this last attack, the fort was abandoned. A new round of settlers established a permanent settlement in 1878. Moab was incorporated as a town on December 20, 1902.