The Temple Trail, in two parts, was used from 1874 to 1876 to haul lumber by ox-team from two sawmills at Nixon Springs on the south face of Mount Trumbull to St. George, eighty miles away, for construction of the L.D.S. Temple. Forty-five volunteers from local communities built the roadways in April and May 1874, and the sawmills, operating only in warmer months, produced more than a million board feet of lumber. Much of it went along the main trail, which dropped over the Hurricane Cliffs about twenty miles south of here and continued to St. George in a seven-day trip, while some was taken by an alternate trail to Antelope Springs and then hauled on to St. George when winter snows stopped sawmill work. That latter route descended the Hurricane Cliffs twelve miles south of here through a declivity later used by the Honeymoon Trail. The Honeymoon Trail had several starting points but one destination, the St. George Temple. For some travelers it began at Mormon settlements in Arizona such as Snowflake and St. Johns, crossed the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry, passed through Pipe Springs, and followed the winter leg of the Temple Trail down the Fort Pierce Wash into St. George. Utah residents from places such as Orderville or Glendale joined it as it passed south of Kanab. After the dedication of the St. George Temple in 1877, groups of young couples, accompanied by chaperones, traveled to St. George by wagon or buggy to exchange wedding vows there, most often in spring and fall, when the weather was mild and farm work allowed the journey; though arduous, it became remembered as a great honeymoon.