From 1871 to 1877, the Temple Trail carried timber from Mt. Trumbull, Arizona, to St. George, Utah, for construction of the St. George LDS Temple. Pioneers traveled 80 miles over a rough dirt road by horse-drawn wagon, hauling one million board feet of timber. In some places they laid rock by hand to build a roadway strong enough for the heavy logging wagons. Crossing washes, canyons, sandy ground, and the rise from the valley bottom to the rim of the Hurricane Fault reflected the resourcefulness and faith of these pioneers. The trail remains an obscure wagon road, and wagon-wheel depressions can still be seen in places. Its staging sites were at the sawmill on Mt. Trumbull and at the St. George Temple. Early settlers called to St. George were assigned to build a temple in an inhospitable desert with scarce raw materials, and they completed that task before building their own homes. The surrounding communities and the Arizona Strip developed a long and lasting relationship through this historic colonizing effort. The Old Arizona Road linked the Little Colorado settlements in Arizona to northern Utah through Kanab, Utah, and Lee's Ferry, Arizona, while its southwestern extension connected southern settlements to St. George through Pipe Springs and the Arizona Strip. Settlers began using this route in the 1860s, and it was established in the early 1870s. It became a major route for communication and transportation as well as for religious and economic purposes. After the St. George LDS Temple opened in 1877, many church members traveled the road from southern Arizona to be married or take part in other church rites, giving it the name Honeymoon Trail. Religious travel on the road declined after railroads reached northern Arizona and ended in 1928 with the building of the temple in Mesa, Arizona. The road continued in commercial use, and the segment from Pipe Springs to St. George remained in use into the mid-1930s, though it was not paved until later. Today, U.S. Highways 89 and 89A parallel parts of the original route near House Rock Valley, Arizona, Highway 89 in Utah follows the trail from Pioneer Gap into Kanab, and in other places dirt roads still follow or parallel the route.