From 1871 to 1877, the Temple Trail carried timber from Mount Trumbull, Arizona, to Saint George, Utah, for construction of the Saint George LDS Temple. Pioneers traveled 80 miles over a rough dirt road by horse-drawn wagon, hauling one million board feet of timber, and in some places laid rock by hand to build a roadway strong enough for heavy logging wagons. Crossing washes, canyons, sandy stretches, and the rise from the valley bottom to the rim of the Hurricane Fault showed the resourcefulness and faith of these pioneers. The road later faded into an obscure wagon route, though wagon-wheel depressions remain visible in some places, and its staging sites were at the sawmill at Mount Trumbull and at the Saint George Temple. Early settlers called to Saint 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 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 Saint George through Pipe Springs and the Arizona Strip. Settlers began traveling this route in the 1860s, and it was established in the early 1870s as a major line of communication and transportation that also served religious and economic purposes. After the Saint 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 rise to the name Honeymoon Trail. This religious use declined with the coming of railroads in northern Arizona and ended in 1928 with the building of the temple in Mesa, Arizona, though the road continued in commercial use and the segment from Pipe Springs to Saint George remained in use into the mid-1930s. Today, U.S. Highways 89 and 89A and some dirt roads follow or parallel parts of its original route.