The wagon road was roughly cut through the wilderness down the course of the Greenwater River to the confluence with White River for the Longmire-Byles wagon train of 1853.
An Oregon Trail Memorial, depicting a covered wagon drawn by oxen, commemorates the memory of George Rowland Parsons, a pioneer from Colorado who crossed through Naches Pass. At this point an excellent vista of Mount Rainier, its valleys, glaciers, lakes, and meadows, spreads out to the west.