Introduction
The Oxen Experience is an additional Pioneer Trail experience. Meet these hardworking draft animals and see them in action. During your visit, you will come to appreciate how oxen helped the Saints in both building—and leaving—Nauvoo.
What to Expect
The Oxen Experience is a self-guided experience that has recently been relocated to its current site. As such, new infrastructure—including a sidewalk, seating, and interpretive signage—will be added in the near future. If desired, you may pet the oxen.
Accessibility
Parking
- There is a gravel parking lot available between the Seventies Hall and the Webb Blacksmith Shop to the southwest of the Oxen Experience along Parley Street.
- There is no designated accessible parking; however, the size of this parking lot will be able to accommodate visitors’ vehicles with accessibility needs if the lot is not full.
- There is also limited street parking available immediately west of the Oxen Experience in front of the Chauncy and Eliza Webb Home on Granger Street.
- There are no designated accessible parking spaces at this location.
Mobility Accessibility
Exterior
- This is an outside experience without steps.
Terrain and Flooring
Exterior
- Street: Asphalt (good condition); level
- Sidewalk: N/A; forthcoming
- Terrain: Grass, dirt and mud; there is a drainage ditch along Granger Street, but a level gravel path crosses the ditch to the north of the Oxen Experience by the fenced backyard lot of the Brigham and Mary Ann Young Home.
Seating
- Currently no seating. Benches facing the dirt path walked by the oxen are forthcoming.