This sign is located near the entrance to Roads End State Wayside.
Marker Name: Roads End
Marker Text: The nearby beach marks the end of the Old Elk Trail. Indians used this trail along the Salmon River as an inland route for hundreds of years. The area’s first tourists, two couples on their honeymoon, followed this route in 1837. Much of it is now Highway 18.
?In 1894, this land was part of the Indian allotment of Lolla Widgeon. Through the years, the land changed hands and in 1926, a town site called Roads End was platted here.
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