Bear River heritage area

Idaho

Utah

— Julie Hollist

Golden Cache Bear Lake Pioneer Spike Valley Country Trails

Blessed by Water Worked by Hand The Bear River Heritage Area — Blessed by Water, Worked by Hand fur trade, sixteen rendezvous were held—four in The Bear River those established by more recent immigrants, like Welcome to the Bear what is now the Bear River Heritage Area, and the The head of the Bear River in the Uinta people from Japan, Mexico, Vietnam and more. other twelve within 65 to 200 miles. Cache Valley, Mountains is only about 90 miles from where it Look for cultural markers on the landscape, River Heritage Area! which straddles the Utah-Idaho border (and is ends at the Great Salt Lake to the west. However, like town welcome signs, historic barns and It sits in a dry part of North America, home to Logan, Utah, and Preston, Idaho, among the river makes a large, 500-mile loop through hay stacking machines, clusters of evergreen yet this watershed of the Bear River is others), was named for the mountain man practice three states, providing water, habitat for birds, fish, trees around old cemeteries and town squares of storing (caching) their pelts there. and other animals, irrigation for agriculture and that often contain a church building (like the greener than its surroundings, offering hydroelectric power for homes and businesses. tabernacles in Paris, Idaho; and Brigham City, a hospitable home to wildlife and people Nineteenth Century Immigration Logan, and Wellsville, Utah, and the old Oneida alike. Early Shoshone and Ute Indians, The Oregon Trail brought thousands Reading the Landscape Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho). See if you can absorb the spirit of the people nineteenth-century Mormons, modern of immigrants through this region, and The heritage of the Bear River Heritage the Mormon migration took place in the Area still shows today in its landscape, people, here. They place a high value on self-sufficiency entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts 1840s-1870s, when believers in the new religion economy and culture. Agriculture is still a primary and independence, so you are likely to find people have all been attracted to this region. We fled persecution in Missouri, Illinois and occupation here. While we have a green spot in the who make for themselves what they can—they hope you’ll enjoy exploring the unique elsewhere to make a new home in a remote area arid west, we still worry about water, especially as like to quilt, for instance, and home gardens and they thought would be safe. Most nineteenth- populations grow. You may see clear water flowing home canning are popular. Finally, if you are people, places, arts, crafts, activities and century Mormon immigrants came from the down gutters and in ditches in many towns. This in the area when a local celebration is going on, institutions that make this our home. eastern United States, Great Britain, Scandinavia is the irrigation system established by Mormon come and join in the fun! Many of the community and other parts of Europe. This settlement has settlers, still in use today. A type of grain farming festivals are very old, such as Mendon, Utah’s Native Americans and Trappers had a profound effect on the landscape you see called “dry farming” is practiced on the hillsides, May Day celebration, where songs written by The Indians migrated back and forth through around you as you drive through the Heritage where no irrigation water can reach. pioneer ancestors are sung this region with the seasons, taking advantage of Area, from the layout of towns and farms to the Many businesses and institutions that were as little girls dance around the best weather and making use of plants and architecture of barns, fences and Mormonism’s established early in the region’s history and still the May poles. Many other This brochure is a sampling wildlife in their daily lives. The old Shoshone name most sacred buildings, the temples. The temple operate today: farm supply stores, Utah State celebrations are based on the of products and institutions for the Bear River is “Bia Ogoi,” or “Big Water.” in Logan, Utah, is one of the earliest built by the University in Logan, the raspberry farms around agricultural-natural resource that provide a window Then in the early 1800s, when the fur trade was Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Bear Lake, the orchards on the western slopes of economy—the local harvest, into our local history and brisk, trappers of European extraction entered the official name of the church known popularly by the Wasatch Mountains and the family farms and be it raspberries, milk, peaches, culture. There isn’t room area seeking beaver and other furs. They learned its nickname, the Mormon Church). ranches found throughout the region. Several of wheat or trout. for an exhaustive listing of every activity, restaurant, much from the Native Americans about survival On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad the communities have small museums, some only Stay a while in the Bear River hotel, and resource that in the area’s sometimes harsh conditions, and they was completed at Promontory, Utah, just north of the Heritage Area and find out open by appointment. Watch for these, often housed make the Bear River why it is Blessed by Water, gathered annually at rendezvous (RON day voo) to Great Salt Lake. This helped ensure the continued in historic buildings such as log cabins or Mormon Heritage Area great. We’ll sell their furs, buy new supplies, share news and growth of the region as people and freight passed tithing houses. Visit some of the restaurants and Worked by Hand. let you discover more of meet old friends. Over the two decades of active through on regularly scheduled trains. other businesses operated by old timers and also those on your own. Happy exploring!

Golden Spike Cache Valley Bear Lake Country Pioneer Trails pp. 4-15 pp. 16-51 pp. 52-65 pp. 66-73 History The Bear River region’s past is often visible in the daily lives of its residents. Historic buildings like barns, granaries, Mormon Idaho tithing offices (easily Utah identified because they Golden Spike are usually tiny, square Tremonton brick buildings used for storage of goods donated Brigham City as tithing), railroad Perry depots (both for the Great Willard Salt Lake Continental railroad and for the smaller Interurban system that operated in the early twentieth century), tabernacles, temples, schools and Box Elder County Tourism first transcontinental railroad was completed with the Golden Spike National Historic Site and Brewers Sparrow. Come courthouses are in almost 435.734.3315 ceremonial driving of the golden spike. The event took On May 10, 1869, the final spike was driven, prepared with plenty of every town. Many towns www.boxelder.org place at Promontory, Utah, about 32 miles west of the completing the transcontinental railroad and gas, food and water—this also have small museums, county seat of Brigham City, near the northern end of revolutionizing travel across North America. is a remote site. Gas and frequently operated by Visitors Center the Great Salt Lake. The county itself is named for the Visit Golden Spike National Historic Site and food services are located 20 the Daughters of Utah Brigham City Chamber of Commerce numerous Box Elder trees that grow here in this part witness historic reenactments and locomotive miles east of Golden Spike in Pioneers. The Oregon 6 N. Main of the Great Basin. demonstrations and participate in ranger Corinne and in downtown Trail and the Hudspeth Brigham City The first permanent white settlements were programs and films. You can take a self-guided Tremonton. Cutoff portion of it run Location: Golden Spike National through the Heritage Area. 435.723.3931 established in 1851 when Mormons moved north from auto tour over historic railroad grades. Within Historic Site, 32 miles west of There are also roadside the Salt Lake City area and settled in what are now an 8-mile radius, you can experience 100 years www.brighamchamber.com Brigham City, via Highways 13 markers for important Willard and Brigham City. Shoshone Indians already of transportation history by visiting the Golden and 83. events such as the Bear GPS: 41.62039° N 112.54665° W Northwest Band of Shoshone lived in the area and numerous violent incidents Spike National Historic Site and visiting the River Massacre, in which Hours: Mon-Sun 9 am-5 pm 707 N. Main occurred until a treaty was negotiated in 1863. rocket display at Thiokol (see separate listing), a group of California Open: Year-round, except holidays The economy is centered on agriculture (hay, where scientists helped put a man on the moon Volunteer soldiers under Brigham City Information: 435.471.2209, ext. 29; 435.734.2286 grain, fruit and livestock) and aerospace technologies, exactly 100 years later in 1969! The Golden Spike www.nps.gov/gosp the command of Colonel www.nwbshoshone-nsn.gov specifically ATK Launch Systems (formerly Thiokol), National Historic Site is also a great place to Patrick Connor annihilated which was established in 1957 and has been a major watch birds. Birders have reported seeing Sharp- nearly 400 Northwestern The Golden Spike region is named for the contributor of missiles, parts and other technology for tailed Grouse, Ferruginous Hawk, Sage Thrasher Shoshone men, women famous events of May 10, 1869, when the nation’s national defense and space exploration. and children in January 1863 (the marker is about 5 miles northwest of Preston, Idaho, on Highway 91).

4 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 5 #363) at Brigham City. The self-guided auto tour route show per year. starts 12 miles west of the Wildlife Education Center. Location: 24 N. 300 W. Hours: Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm Hours: Tue-Fri 11 am-6 pm; Sat 1 pm-5 pm Open: The refuge auto tour route is open sunrise Information: 435.723.6769; www.brighamcity.utah.gov to sunset year-round, weather and road conditions permitting. Information: 435.723.5887;www.fws.gov Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation Utah and Southeastern Idaho were settled Brigham City Depot first by the Shoshone. Today’s Shoshone are This depot opened in 1907, is registered as a especially well-known for their beadwork. Stop National Historic Site and was the location by the offices of the Northwest Band and get for thousands of cheerful hellos and tearful information on events and artisans from Patty goodbyes during World War II. The Craftsman Timbimboo-Madsen, Cultural and Natural hip-roof style depot was once a major shipping Resource Director. Location: 707 N. Main St. center for Union Pacific, but now houses an Open: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-5 pm educational center for railroad history and Information: 435.734.2286, ext.13 community open houses. Every October the depot sponsors a Scarecrow Alley, asking Heritage Sites people from the community to bring in their scarecrows for all to enjoy around Halloween. Brigham City Tabernacle Every December, a Christmas Tree Lane is also Built on “Sagebrush Hill,” on a site chosen in 1865 by set up with community participation. All events Brigham Young himself, this tabernacle took nearly are free and open to the public. 15 years to build. It was gutted by fire in 1896. The Location: 833 W. Forest St. formerly somewhat plain building was rebuilt with Hours: Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat 1 pm-5 pm; or by appt. Open: May-Dec a Gothic Revival tower and 16 pinnacles. Free guided Information: Depot: 435.723.2989; alternate numbers: tours are available June through September. Brigham City colonies—feed daily on fresh fish at the refuge. 435.723.2948, 435.723.3963 Location: 251 S. Main St. American Avocet, Black-necked Stilt, and Experiences Western and Clark Grebe chicks will surely peg Brigham City Museum/Gallery Brigham City Mormon the “cute” meter in the early summer months. Founded in 1970, the Brigham City Museum- Co-op Buildings Diesel and Steak! And if you’re hankering to see waterfowl in the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Gallery is a regional art and history center. The In the 1860s, Brigham Young Old Highway 89 and fall, how about Tundra Swans? About 40,000 instituted the “cooperative Interstates 15 and 84 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge offers some important pioneer history of Brigham City is swans are often reported at the refuge during movement” in Utah. With continue Box Elder of the most phenomenal waterbird watching in told with hands-on exhibits and Daughters of routine waterbird surveys each November, and the new transcontinental County’s transportation the western United States. The Refuge’s more than the Utah Pioneers artifacts. Eliza’s Attic is an numbers around Great Salt Lake can reach in introduction to the settlement’s lifestyle while railroad came goods made legacy, which dates from 74,000 acres of marsh and upland habitats create the days of covered wagons excess of 50,000 birds! For a refuge birding report the interactive tool area helps children and their elsewhere and church leaders an oasis for birds in this desert climate. From the and steam locomotives updated monthly, call 435.734.6426. feared that materialism and 12-mile auto tour loop, visitors are treated to the parents understand how the pioneers worked. that carried people and The Refuge’s new Wildlife Education Center covetousness would grow sights and sounds of many of the 200+ species Rotating art exhibits are located in the gallery goods to the West and to (visitor center) features interactive exhibits about among the Mormons. A found there. The refuge is known for mind- part of the facility. Exhibits are varied and include the gold fields in Montana. birds, an auditorium, teaching lab, bookstore system of businesses owned boggling numbers of waterfowl and shorebirds traditional and art quilts, photography, all types The era of the automobile and more. The Refuge has special Saturday cooperatively was created, and highway freighting from March to November. of painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics program. Guided Refuge tours are given with existing private opened the way for the The 55,000 American White Pelicans that and sculpture. Quality exhibits are curated seasonally. businesses and individuals development of the truck nest on Great Salt Lake’s Gunnison Island— from the works of regionally known artists and Location: Wildlife Education Center (Visitor Center) is the museum hosts at least one national touring stop. Box Elder County has one of North America’s three largest pelican one block west of Interstate 15 on 2155 W. Forest St. (exit several of these, whose characteristics are home- style cooking and savory ethnic foods.

6 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 7 getting shares for their resources and inventories Maddox Ranch House that were contributed. Mormons were encouraged Since 1949, the Maddox family has been serving to buy from the “co-ops,” which made a variety delicious home-cooked meals. They are famous of goods, from flour to furniture. The Brigham for their home-grown beef and also serve bison City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association (less fat than regular beef—give it a try!), chicken was the local co-op in Box Elder County. The and fresh seafood. Now in their third generation, remaining co-op buildings in Brigham City are everything on the menu is made from scratch, the largest concentration of such in Utah and a including breads, rolls, ice cream and sodas. You model for others. can go inside for a juicy steak, or grab a burger Location: 5 N. Main St. (This was the co-op store); 56 N. 500 E. at the drive-in. Don’t miss the stockyard in the back where you can view bison grazing. Just south of the main restaurant you will Restaurants notice the Lodge, a beautiful post and beam log structure that was built by a group of Amish Bert’s Family Cafe builders. Call Maddox for more information Opened in 1929 by Grandfather Bert Olsen, this about banquets for more than 50 people. www. cafe is run by third-generation family members. maddoxfinefood.com They still offer the same rib-sticking hearty meals. Location: 1900 S. Hwy 89, south of Brigham City Location: 89 S. Main Hours: Tues-Sat 11 am-9:30 pm; Hours: Mon-Fri 6 am-6 pm; Sat 6 am-4 pm; Drive-in closes at 9 pm in winter Sun 7 am-2 pm Information: 435.723.8545 Information: 435.734.9544 Melina’s Mexican Restaurant Hunan Village South of the border decor and food plus Chinese, Hunan, Szechwan and Mandarin food Location: 686 S. Main St. American food items. Melina’s has a breakfast Hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs 11 am-9:30 pm; Fri 11 and lunch buffet. Hours: Sun-Thurs 11 am-10:30 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm; Check out the Shop-Hop at www.utahshophop. am-10:30 pm; Sat noon-10:30 pm Location: 40 W. 700 S. Sunday 11:30-9:30. In winter, closes 30 minutes earlier Open: Closed on Tue Hours: Summer: Mon-Thurs 11 am-9:30 pm; Information: 435.723.3923 com. Village Dry Goods participates in Brigham Information: 435.723.8885 Fri-Sat 11 am-10:30 pm; City’s Heritage Arts Festival, which usually Winter: Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat open until 10 Ricardo’s Restaurant occurs on the second Saturday in June, by Information: 435.723.6000 offering lectures and quilt classes. Idle Isle Cafe Famous for their chili rellenos and taco plate, as well Location: 96 S. Main Willard Utah Locally owned and operated, the Idle Isle Cafe Peach City Ice Cream as carne asada steak on Fridays and Saturdays. Information: 435.723.1315; opened its doors in 1921, making it the third Location: 131 S. Main St. www.villagedrygoods.com Peach City Ice Cream has been serving up tasty Tues-Thurs 11 am-8:30 pm; Fri 11 am-9 pm; Sat oldest restaurant still in operation in Utah. They Hours: burgers and delicious shakes since 1937. Locally noon-9 pm serve up home-style food and wonderful home- owned by the Morgan brothers, Harvey and Information: 435.723.1811 Idle Isle Candy made desserts. Idle Isle Candy has been in business since 1921 Location: 24 S. Main Blynn, this local hangout serves over 20 flavors years and offers hand-dipped chocolates made Hours: Mon-Thurs 11 am-8 pm; Wed closes at 2:30; of homemade ice cream. The house specialties Shopping Fri-Sat 11 am-9 pm are the Big Joe burger and peach shakes made daily in the store. Stop by and taste the house Information: 435.734.2468 in season (late June through August). Harvey Village Dry Goods specialty and best seller, the almond cream Morgan met his wife at Peach City where Bonnie Calling all quilters! For a week every June you toffee ball. Location: 41 S. Main was a carhop and he was cook—now it’s all in can shop-hop to this and 14 other quilting shops Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm the family! along the Wasatch Front. During deer hunting Information: 435.723.8003 Location: 306 N. Main St. season in the fall, the quilt shops sponsor an overnight trip for all those “hunting widows.”

8 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 9 Collinston Heritage Sites Garland Honeyville Corinne, The Gentile Capital of Utah Experiences Restaurant Experiences The town of Corinne, was established in 1869 and for about a decade was known as “The Old Barn Community Theatre The Pie Dump and TL Steakhouse Crystal Hot Springs The Old Barn Community Theatre produces Gentile Capital of Utah.” (In Utah, the common Geothermal activity is evident throughout this use of the term “gentile” usually refers to non- “The Pie Dump by Day, Fine Dining—TL several live performances each year in an 1867 stage Steakhouse by Night.” region and hot springs can be found in numerous stop barn. In the summer they host a barn burner Mormons rather than non-Jews, though it is used locations along the western slopes of the Wasatch both ways.) The town was established to be just The Pie Dump is family-owned and has been in with a Dutch oven dinner on opening night and at business over 45 years. Their homemade from- Mountains. Crystal Hot Springs is a resort Christmas they host a Gala at show opening. that by its founders, a group of former U.S. Army built around one of these natural hot springs Location: scratch pastries and pies are a taste of heaven. 3605 Bigler Rd.; off Hwy 30 and about 3-4 officers and non-Mormon merchants from Salt Location: 20 West 1400 South 13 miles north of Brigham City in the town of miles east of the Riverside exit off Interstate 15 near Lake City. They established it on the Union Pacific Hours: The Pie Dump - Mon-Fri 6 am - 2 pm; -TL Steak Honeyville. The area was used as a winter Tremonton line, hoping to become the primary transfer point House - 4 to 9 pm Fri and Sat GPS: 41.78473° N 112.10313° W Information: 435-257-3947; www.thepiedump.com campsite by the region’s Shoshone Indians. Information: For reservations call: 435.458.2276; for mines in Montana and elsewhere. It gained a Then, as the transcontinental railroad was being www.oldbarn.org reputation for wild and raucous living and at one built, Chinese workers found the springs and time boasted 15 saloons and 16 liquor stores. The Grouse Creek built cedar tubs to capture the waters to provide Corinne founders even tried to work with Washington, soothing mineral baths. The first commercial D.C., supporters to get the town named the Experiences development of the springs was in 1901. The capital of Utah. Eventually, the “gentiles’” plans Experiences resort now features modern attractions such as were foiled when Brigham Young ordered the Box C Guest Ranch waterslides in addition to its traditional soaking construction of the Utah Northern Railroad ATK Launch Systems Enjoy this family cattle ranch for a western working pools. Camping facilities are available with and from Ogden to Franklin, Idaho, bypassing Thiokol was founded in 1929 and is the world’s experience, or just relax in peace and quiet. without hookups. Corinne. The UNR was bought by Union Pacific Location: Grouse Creek, Utah (the far northwestern Location: 8212 N. Hwy 38 largest producer of high-technology solid rocket in 1877 and Corinne’s glory days were over. Now corner of Utah). Hours: Opens at 10 am in summer, noon in winter motors for space, defense and commercial uses. GPS: 41.424362° N 113.534108° W Open: Call or see website Corinne has both Mormon and non-Mormon They produce the giant solid rocket motors for Information: 435.747.7400; P.O. Box 72, Grouse Creek, Information: 435.279.8104; residents and you can see some of its past in its NASA’s space shuttle program. The name Thiokol Utah 84313; www.boxcranch.com www.crystalhotsprings.net historic buildings, including the small Methodist stems from the Greek words for sulfur and glue, Church, which is on the National Register of a reference to the company’s original products, Lodging Historic Places. Tours of Corinne are available Lucin synthetic rubber and liquid polymer sealants. by appointment. Thiokol has a free outdoor display of solid rocket GPS: 41.55144° N 113.12337° W Box C Guest Ranch Experiences motors at its facility. Within an 8-mile radius, you Information: 435.744.2442 See previous entry. can experience 100 years of transportation history Lucin was a west desert oasis sometimes by visiting the Golden Spike National Historic Site, Shopping referred to as a “warbler trap.” It was a small where the transcontinental railroad was completed settlement that served a stretch of the Southern in 1869 (see separate listing), and the rocket display Clay Nicholas Saddlery Pacific Railroad and is now abandoned. At first at Thiokol, where scientists helped put a man on Clay has been building saddles for about 12 glance Lucin looks like a small pond with some the moon exactly 100 years later in 1969! years. He started working with hides as a boy surrounding trees, but it is much more, especially Location: About 25 miles west of Brigham City. Take Hwy 83 west, through Corinne, taking the left fork and continues to work leather into beautiful and during spring and fall migrations with more coming out of Corinne. You will eventually see the rocket functional saddles for the ranching community. than 100 bird species recorded at the site. Look Location: 4780 W. 2400 N. motor display on the right. for Northern Mockingbird, Eastern and Western Hours: Call for appointment GPS: 41.65895° N 112.44097° W Kingbird, Lark Sparrow, Northern Flicker, as well Information: 435.744.0228 Open: year-round Information: 435.863.3511

10 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 11 nineteenth century and see if you can spot any Snowville remaining evidence of the devastating flood that hit Willard in the 1920s, bringing silt down the Restaurants canyon to cover roads, pathways and main floor living areas. GPS: 41.47075° N 112.02894° W Mollie’s Cafe Mollie’s—a tradition in Snowville for 25 years. Experience Mollie’s joy of cooking Heritage Theatre in every meal. Heritage Community Theatre is housed in Location: 15 E. Main Perry’s century-old former Mormon church Hours: Daily 6 am-10 pm building and offers musicals, children’s theatre Open: Year-round and drama. Information: 435.872.8295 Location: 2505 S. US Hwy Open: Closed Tue and Sun. Call for current play dates Ranch House Diner and show times Information: 435.723.8392 Rustic western atmosphere; hearty, home-style fare. Natural Resources Location: 10 S. Stone Rd. What do fishing, hunting, Lodging Hours: Mon-Sat 7 am-10 pm; closes one hour earlier on trapping, hiking, logging, weekdays in winter Open: Six days phosphate mining, skiing, KOA Campground boating and folk medicine Information: 435.872.8338 have in common? They This campground features experiences like hay rely on the plentiful rides and storytelling in summer season. Location: 1040 W. 3600 S. Tremonton natural resources of (US Hwy 89, south of Perry) the Bear River Heritage Fall Harvest on Utah’s Famous Fruitway, Hwy. 89 through Willard and Perry, Utah. Information: 435.723.5503 Area. The water, fertile Experiences soil, abundant wildlife as common Utah migrants and timber were some Perry Eli Anderson’s Wagons including American Riverside of the attractions for the Interested in horse-drawn vehicles? Western Redstart, Northern earliest inhabitants of the Experiences Experience filmmakers are! You won’t want to miss the Waterthrush, Northern region. Grizzly bears no largest private collection in the West. longer live here, but black Saw-whet Owl and Scott’s Fruit Way Lazy M Diamond G and the Cowboy Folk Location: 11200 N. 8790 W. Hwy 102. Take Main Street bears, moose, elk, deer Oriole. Habitat includes a from Tremonton, follow it as it becomes Hwy 102. If you drive south from Brigham City through Arts of Max Godfrey and many other animals water impoundment with Open: By appointment only Perry and Willard on US Hwy 89, you will see Max Godfrey learned to braid rawhide from Information: 435.854.3760 roam our mountains and trees and desert shrub. Fall numerous roadside stands selling local and his father and continues to make rawhide gear valleys. The Heritage brings many uncommon Utah imported fruit and vegetables. Some stands for the local ranching community. He is a well- Area includes parts of migrants. This area is best Holmgren Historical Farm the Caribou National remain open year-round, but most open up once known cowboy poet whose repertoire includes visited during spring and fall. This working family farm was homesteaded in Forest, the Wasatch-Cache Location: 47 miles southwest of the local fruit trees and vegetable crops start the classics and his own poetry that reflects his 1896 under the Homestead Act. The farmstead is National Forest, the Park Valley producing. The season begins with cherries and ranching heritage. on the National Register of Historic Places due Sawtooth National Forest, GPS: 41.34578° N 113.90223° W continues through Halloween pumpkins. Enjoy GPS: 41.51031° N 112.01427° W Hours: Call for information to its unusual dairy barn that retains hay storage all of the Curlew National the scenery of blossom-filled trees in the spring Grassland, the Bear Information: 435.458.3298 and dairy operations under one roof. Most or jumbles of sweet corn and squash in the dairy operations in the state either had separate Lake National Wildlife stands later in the summer along this highway. Refuge and the Bear River buildings for each use or constructed a milking Migratory Bird Refuge. In While you’re there, take a look at some of the parlor as an appendage to the barn. The farm addition, there are mineral old stone and frame homes dating from the late remained in use as a dairy from its construction deposits, hot springs and wild plants that are unique to the area.

12 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 13 until the year 2000 and has remained in the Location: 1600 E. 20 S. While you’re there, take a look at some of the Hours: Holmgren family. The farm now hosts concerts, Mon-Sat 6 am-9 pm; Sun 6 am-7 pm; Closes early old stone and frame homes dating from the late Sundays in winter craft fairs and other events and has a rose garden, Information: 435.257.3726 nineteenth century and see if you can spot any herbs and wild flowers. remaining evidence of the devastating flood that Location: 460 N. 300 E. hit Willard in the 1920s, bringing silt down the Open: May-Oct Shopping Information: 435.257.7696 canyon to cover roads, pathways and main floor LaRue’s Country Quilts living areas. GPS: 41.47075° N 112.02894° W Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area Quilting supplies galore to feed the “habit” of This site offers Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle local quilters. LaRue’s Country quilts has been in Willard Bay State Park (winter), Cinnamon Teal and Sandhill Crane. business for over 30 years and offers fabrics for Nesting species include Black-headed Grosbeak, Take the Corrine exit off I-15. When you get quilting, hand and machine quilting, marking, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Gray Catbird, Yellow into the town of Corrine follow the signs that quilt binding and hem stitching. Warbler and Song Sparrow; Boneparte’s Gull, point you in the direction of the Golden Spike Location: 11000 N. 5600 W. 1/2 mile west and 1/2 mile south of the Crossroads. Bald Eagle, Common Tern, Hooded Meganser Historical Site. Travel to 11300 West (Little Hours: Mon-Thurs 9 am-1 am or call for appointment and Common Loon in the fall and early winter. Mountain county road, west of Little Mountain). Information: 435.257.0801 Visit this site any season. Get more information You will see a small sign at the edge of a dirt about Willard Bay here. road marked Salt Creek WMA. Travel north Leatherneck Saddlery Location: Willard, just west of I-15 off exit #360. on this road to any of the three parking areas. Don Hansen made his first saddle in 1939. In The North Salt Creek WMA entrance can be 1980, he opened his shop and has been making Heritage Sites accessed via 9600 North and 8400 West. South saddles full-time since then. A master teacher for Ethnic and Salt Creek WMA entrance can be accessed via the Utah Arts Council’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship Willard Historic District Cultural Groups 6800 West (Iowa String) and traveling west on Program, Don passes on the saddle-making The first designated historic district in Utah, The Bear River region 6800 North to Comptons Knoll or the county tradition to apprentices. the Willard district reflects the Welsh heritage is home to many ethnic road parking area or the main parking area GPS: 41.51024° N 112.01427° W of many of its earliest settlers. The main builder and cultural groups. Information: 435.257.7355 The Northwest Band by the outhouses. Driving directions at www. of the homes was Shadrach Jones, a Welsh of Shoshone, who have utahoutdooractivities.com/saltcreek.html stonemason and the homes are mainly Greek Location: 12 miles southwest of Tremonton inhabited the area for GPS: 41.63317° N 112.25804° W Willard Revival and Gothic in style, forming the largest centuries, still live grouping of pioneer stone homes in Utah. Some here and have their Experiences Restaurants 40 homes predate 1895, 12 of which are listed on headquarters in Brigham the National Register of Historic Places. City, Utah. The Mormon Fruit Way Location: The historic district is roughly bounded by 200 migration of the 1800s Crossroads Family Restaurant W., 200 N., 100 E. and 200 S. in Willard, just a few miles If you drive south from Brigham City through primarily consisted of Since 1932, Crossroads meals prepared from south of Brigham City on the west side of U.S. 89 Perry and Willard on US Hwy 89, you will see people from Great Britain scratch have pleased the hearty appetite, the GPS: 41.4091° N 113.03637° W numerous roadside stands selling local and Open: Tours are available Apr-Oct and Scandinavia. In the dieter and everyone in-between. Crossroads has imported fruit and vegetables. Some stands Information: Tour information: 435.734.0332 past century, people from unique menu offerings such as Greek salads and Japan, the Pacific Islands, remain open year-round, but most open up once dressing, the Greek Gyro sandwich and Greek Mexico, several South the local fruit trees and vegetable crops start omelets with feta cheese. All their rolls, pies and Central American producing. The season begins with cherries and and cinnamon rolls are made fresh daily from countries, Vietnam, continues through Halloween pumpkins. Enjoy scratch and their “chicken” fries are yummy! Cambodia and many other the scenery of blossom-filled trees in the spring places have made homes You can look forward to specials on breakfast, or jumbles of sweet corn and squash in the in northern Utah and lunch and dinner five days a week. Open seven stands later in the summer along this highway. southeastern Idaho. One days a week. sign of their presence is Sandhill Crane — Mike Bullock the variety of restaurants featuring authentic foods from many cultures.

14 Golden Spike www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Golden Spike 15 Logan Canyon National Scenic Byway This beautiful canyon is the link between Cache Valley and Bear Lake Valley via U.S. Highway 89. It was designated as a National Scenic Byway utah in 2002. It continues to be a favorite place for traditional activities like family reunions, hiking, fishing, skiing and snowmobiling. One of the ache Valley favorite recreation spots is Idaho Preston Tony Grove at the end of a 7-mile side trip from the Utah Smithfield Logan main highway about 20 miles from Logan. Years Hyrum ago, it was common for wealthy Logan families to camp in the area to Logan is home of Utah State University, a land grant college founded in 1888. Old Main is one of escape the summer heat in Cache Valley’s architectural icons and the A on top stands for the school mascot, the Aggies. — USU Public Relations & Marketing the valley. Because it was popular with the “tonies,” or high-toned, uptown set, Cache Valley, Utah Indians (primarily Shoshone and Ute), then trappers. playa wetlands habitat with little human activity. canoe. Expect many waterfowl it became known as Tony But soon after the Mormons settled in the Salt Lake Expect to see marsh birds, birds of prey and many and shorebirds. A 2.5-mile loop Grove. The Tony Grove Cache Valley Visitors Bureau Valley in 1847, they began colonizing nearby areas. In shorebirds. This site is on private land; please stay trail starts and ends near Benson ranger station, located 199 North Main, Logan 84321 1855, cattlemen tending Brigham Young’s and other’s on the road to view wildlife. Marina (on 3000 North) and near the turnoff, is listed herds attempted a large settlement they called Elkhorn Location: Located 4 miles west of Smithfield on 7000 includes a footbridge over the on the National Register 435.755.1890, 800.882.4433 North. Turn west on 100 North in Smithfield. This of Historic Places. The www.tourcachevalley.com Ranch, in the present Nibley area. Unprepared for a becomes West Highway. From here turn north on 2400 old railroad trestle to the south. severe winter, most of their cattle died and the ranch West to access 7000 North. Look for American Bittern, canyon is also dotted with camping, fishing, rock Cache Valley was originally named Willow was all but abandoned for a few more years. In GPS: 41.85965° N 111.91055° W White-faced Ibis, Snowy Egret, climbing, picnicking areas 1856, Cache Valley’s first permanent settlement was Information: www.bridgerlandaudubon.org Cattle Egret, Great Blue Heron, Valley because of the abundant willows growing and trailheads, and is along its many rivers and streams. Later, the name established in Wellsville. The Valley is home to Utah Northern Harrier, Common home to Beaver Mountain was changed to Cache Valley for the practice of early State University and a wealth of outdoors, heritage Benson Yellowthroat, American White Ski area and Beaver Creek fur trappers to cache, or hide, their furs in the area. and performing arts activities. Pelican and Sandhill Crane. Lodge. A guide to the The Valley is about 50 miles long, 20 miles wide, Experiences Habitat includes freshwater Logan Canyon National surrounded by rugged mountains and straddles the Amalga marsh, open water, shoreline, Scenic Byway is available Utah-Idaho border. It is a green oasis in the arid West, Cutler Marsh wetland pasture and some at the Cache Valley and even greener because of the irrigation system that Experiences Cutler Marsh was created by the shallow water of riparian areas. Visitors Bureau, 199 North Location: There are various ways was established by early settlers. the Bear River at the head of the Cutler Reservoir. It Main St. in Logan. This to access the marsh, but take US brochure details the scenic Cache Valley was originally only known to Amalga Barrens is best viewed from the bridges where roads cross Hwy 30 west from Logan for about The Amalga Barrens is several square miles of salt the marsh and the boat docks (restroom here), or by vistas and recreational facilities available to the Byway traveler. www. logancanyon.com

16 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 17 musical pageant about the life and testimony of GPS: 41.60165° N 111.5682° W Martin Harris. Hours: Daily 10 am-5 pm, Dec. 15 to Mar. 15; open for Location: Clarkston Cemetery, at the north end of 200 fishing and outdoor recreation in summer. East in Clarkston. Take State Hwy 30 west from Logan, Information: 435.753.6168 or 435.753.6206; turn north on State Hwy 23 to Newtown and turn west at www.hardwareranch.com the Hwy 142 junction. GPS: 41.93166° N 112.04465° W Hyrum City Museum Information: 435.563.9090; Martin Harris Pageant, P.O. Box 151, Clarkston, UT 84305; www.martinharrispageant.org The new Hyrum City Museum is still being developed in the beautiful new Hyrum City Library/Museum complex. The building was Cornish completed in May 2007 and at this printing, displays were being designed and constructed. Experiences Call for more information or to arrange a visit. Location: 50 West Main, Hyrum GPS: 41.63422° N 111.85638° W Notlwonk Springs Hours: Call for hours or appointment. At Notlwonk Springs Farm sheep are chosen for Information: 435.245.0208 qualities that appeal to the hand spinner such as softness and length of fiber. They sell fleece, roving Hyrum State Park (a long bundle of unspun fiber that is twisted This beautiful 450-acre manmade lake offers together) and yarn in natural colors—black, boating, year-round fishing, waterskiing, brown, grey and white. Wooltrek Days is held the camping and swimming. Facilities include a first weekend in May, and you can learn about the 32-unit campground with one ADA site, modern sheep and fleece industry. Internationally renowned Utah Festival Opera Company is in residence at the Ellen Eccles Theatre each summer. Location: 4420 West 14300 North, Cornish restrooms, showers, a concrete boat ramp and a This region is well-known for its love of the performing arts. — Cory Weaver Information: Fred and Jo Knowlton, 435.258.5539; sandy beach. A group camping area is available [email protected] by reservation for reunions and parties. The 2.5 miles. There is a boat launch on the south side of park is located only 15 minutes from downtown Hwy 30 or you can turn north on 3200 West or State Clarkston Hwy 23 to access the marina and other viewing sites. Logan. Blacksmith Fork Canyon and Hardware Hyrum City Ranch Elk Refuge are only 16 miles to the east. GPS coordinates are for the Hwy 30 boat launch. Experiences Location: 405 West 300 South, Hyrum GPS: 41.74586° N 111.94801° W Experiences GPS: 41.62766° N 111.86694° W Information: www.bridgerlandaudubon.org Martin Harris Pageant Hours: Gate is open 6 am-10 pm Hardware Ranch and Elk Refuge Open: Year-round, including Thanksgiving and Christmas Muddy Road Outfitters and Canoe The town of Clarkston is home to an annual pageant Information: 435.245.6866 chronicling the life of LDS Church leader Martin Hardware Ranch Wildlife Management Area Rentals Harris, who helped finance the first printing of the (WMA) was purchased by the State of Utah in 1945 Jim and Barbara Waterson are knowledgeable Shopping Book of Mormon. Harris is buried in Clarkston, as a location to operate a winter feeding program for about the waterways of the Bear River and its where he made his home during the last part of his Rocky Mountain Elk. Hardware Ranch WMA also tributaries in Cache Valley. They have been Rasmussen Pottery Studio life. Over the decades, the Martin Harris Pageant provides habitat for many other species of wildlife, helping people with their canoe trips for many K. and Kerri Rasmussen, husband and wife potters, has grown from a little-known community play to promotes wildlife research and management and years. Canoes available for rent, and maps and work together to produce unique handmade an epic pageant attended annually by thousands offers visitors recreational wildlife education. water blaster squirt guns are available too. Winter adventures include horse-drawn sleigh functional and decorative pottery. Designs from Location: 4705 W. 3800 N. Benson—call for directions of people. The 2,200 seat amphitheater is routinely nature are woven within their work. GPS: 41.80083° N 111.94863° W filled. The pageant was written by Rhett James. rides to view the wintering elk. Open for fishing Location: 263 West 300 North, Hyrum Hours: Call for reservations. Every year, hundreds of people from Cache Valley and outdoor recreation during the summer. Hours: Call for an appointment or stop by the home studio Information: 435.753.3693 Location: Hyrum, (15 miles east of Hyrum on US Hwy Information: 435.245.594; www.raspottery.com join together to produce and perform this beautiful 101 in Blacksmith Fork Canyon)

18 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 19 and jellies and coffee. Presentations allow you to

Lewiston Logan interact with local employees who will teach them about the skills, uniqueness and history of their Shopping Experiences companies and products and where possible provide tours of their facilities. Brochure available at the Cache Dragongoose Farm and Apple Cider Beaver Mountain Ski Resort Valley Visitors Bureau, 199 North Main St. Dragongoose Farm is an interesting site, Utah is world famous for our skiing, and Beaver Information: 435.755.1890; www.tourcachevalley.com featuring an historic home and granary built Mountain boasts four lifts and perfect powder. in 1875. Around 1874, settler Niels Bergeson It’s the longest running family-owned ski resort First Dam planted a box elder tree that is listed as a Utah in the country. The resort caters to skiers and This grassy park marks the first of three dams Champion Box Elder. Part of the historic home snowboarders of all skill levels. constructed to harness the power of the Logan was used as the Bergeson Maternity Home from Location: 27 miles east of Logan, 15 miles west of River for electricity. On a sunny, spring day, the Garden City on U.S. 1939-1949. When you visit this site, be sure to Hwy 89, Logan Canyon banks of First Dam come alive with picnickers, take yourself on a tour of the half-acre flower Open: Dec-Mar, daily, 9 am-4 p.m.; closed Christmas Day volleyball, sunbathers and college students. Geese garden, which has more than 300 rose varieties; Information: 435.753.0921; 435.753.4822 for 24-hour ski and ducks are always looking for a tasty crumb. and in the fall purchase a gallon of Dragongoose report; www.skithebeav.com Local anglers also frequent the water’s edge in gourmet apple cider. hopes of landing one of the many trout stocked Location: 1700 South 800 East, Lewiston Beaver Creek Lodge here each year. Newly constructed viewing decks, GPS: 41.94416° N 111.83893° W Whether you come for our first-class snowmobil- Open: Call before you visit. fishing piers and restrooms make this park an Information: Business: 435.258.2702; Home: ing, mountain horseback rides, a family reunion enjoyable spot for everyone. 435.258.2702; Cell: 435.760.1274; or business retreat, Beaver Creek Lodge is the Location: Mouth of Logan Canyon, Wasatch-Cache www.dragongoose.com place for you. Located in beautiful Logan Can- National Forest. Off US Hwy 89 on Canyon Rd GPS: 41.74266° N 111.79051° W yon, Beaver Creek Lodge is 27 miles east of Logan Theurer’s Store Utah along scenic US Hwy 89, the Logan Canyon Logan Canyon National Scenic Byway Family-owned since 1904, Theurer’s (pronounced National Scenic Byway. Whether you travel by foot, bicycle or car, a “Tires”) is a local favorite for Cache Valley residents. Location: Logan Canyon, Wasatch-Cache National Forest GPS: 41.96298° N 111.52169° W journey along the Logan Canyon National Scenic Theurer’s started with a store in Providence, Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm Byway offers enough wild natural beauty, diverse and grew to three stores around the valley. The Information: 800.946.4485; www.beavercreeklodge.com recreational opportunities and fascinating stories Lewiston. Theurer’s is still in operation and sells to satisfy even the most demanding adventurer. groceries, hardware items, fabric and also has Cache Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum Located approximately 90 miles north of Salt Lake a custom butcher shop. The fabric store has 750 View mountain man and early pioneer relics and City, this winding stretch of U.S. Hwy 89 runs to 1,000 bolts of quilting fabric that people come enjoy reading historical accounts of Cache Valley from the city of Logan to the brilliant blue waters from all over to purchase. The owner also makes natives. of Bear Lake. It passes through vibrant fields of her own quilts and sells them at the store. Location: Chamber of Commerce building at 160 North Location: 1 North Main, Lewiston Main St., Logan wildflowers, between vertical limestone cliffs and GPS: 41.92242° N 111.80883° W Hours: Tues-Fri 10 am-4 pm along picturesque streams brimming with native Hours: Mon-Sat, 8 am-7 pm Open: June-September (Labor Day) or other times by trout. The best way to truly experience its sites is Information: 435.258.2755 appointment Information: 435.752.5139 or 435.753.1635 to leave the road behind and immerse yourself in Logan Canyon’s vibrant spirit. Location: Take 400 North in Logan to the mouth of Cache Valley Food Tour Logan Canyon to begin the route. Take a look at behind-the-scenes production of the Information: 435.755.1890;www.logancanyon.com Valley’s signature food products including honey, chocolates, cheeses, ice cream, artisan breads, jams Mountain biking at Tony Grove Lake in spectacular Logan Canyon. — Monique Beeley

20 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 21 Logan Ranger District and Visitor Center Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art deposited around the lake. Moose are often spotted Heritage Sites Stop by the Logan Ranger District and Visitor The museum has one of the largest permanent taking advantage of the water’s cool summer Center to load up on maps, get acquainted with collections in the Intermountain Region, featuring temperatures. There is a $3 parking fee for day use Cache County Courthouse recreation opportunities, check on current western and international artists, a fine ceramics at the lake. Stay overnight in one of 34 campsites at The beautifully restored courthouse was built in conditions and learn more about how to keep collection and Native American artwork. Regularly the campground. Picnic areas and a fully accessible 1883 and houses the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau the Forest healthy. The district also manages changing exhibits provide a variety of fine arts and boardwalk are located near the water. The turnoff as well as other county offices. This building recreation facilities and activities, handles special crafts. to the lake is 19.6 miles up Logan Canyon off U.S. was designed by Truman O. Angell, Jr., who also Location: Utah State University, Logan. In the Chase permits and sponsors interpretive education Hwy. 89. A 7-mile road climbs to 8,050 feet. designed the Logan Tabernacle and the Logan Fine Arts Center complex, at the southwest corner of 780 Location: Look for the Tony Grove sign, 19 miles east of programs. The Logan Ranger District has two North 1200 East. Logan in Logan Canyon. Temple. It is the oldest county building in Utah still Wilderness Areas, totaling more than 67,000 acres, Hours: Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 12 pm-4 pm GPS: 41.89502° N 111.64222° W being used for its original purpose. within its boundary: Mount Naomi and Wellsville Information: 435.797.0163; www.artmuseum.edu Location: 199 North Main Street, Logan Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm Mountains; and the Logan Canyon National Scenic Byway (Hwy 89). Utah State University Outdoor Recreation Location: 1500 East Hwy 89 (400 North), Logan Northern Utah Fiber Artisans (NUFA) The outdoor recreation center is open to students Caine Lyric Theatre Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 am-4:30 pm Spinners, weavers, knitters—and all friends and nonstudents and features equipment rental, This theatre was built in 1913 by the Thatchers, a Open: Year-round of wooly creatures. Look for a NUFA member trip information, library and some guided day locally prominent family who loved plays and Information: 435.755.3620; demonstrating spinning and weaving at the www.fs.fed.us/r4/wcnf/unit/logan trips. Rent canoes, kayaks, whitewater rafts, operas. A wing was added in 2001, and the building Cache Valley Gardeners Market in summer or at mountain bikes, backpacks, tents, sleeping bags was beautifully refurbished. A friendly ghost who other heritage demonstration events throughout and other camping gear. For winter sports there are is partial to Shakespeare haunts the theatre. Actors Family History Center, Logan Tabernacle the Bear River Heritage Area. cross-country and telemark skis (but no downhill claim that they’ve heard the ghost laughing during Discover your family ancestry at this satellite Information: Peggy Neuber, 435.792.6010 or Jenny King, 801.731.5234 skis), snowboards, snowshoes and some sleds. A rehearsals of Hamlet. The Lyric is home to many branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- ski trailer for pulling children is available, as well performances during the year and is especially day Saints’ international genealogy library, the as some ski equipment sized for children. Check Stokes Nature Center loved for its summer repertory series run by the largest genealogical library in the world. Expert out the website or call for further information Utah State University Theatre Department. The Stokes Nature Center provides opportunities volunteers will help you with your research and on equipment rental, scheduled day trips, a trip Location: 28 West Center, Logan for students of all ages to explore, learn about and Hours: June 13-Aug 3 you might just find a long-lost relative. board, fall equipment swap and winter yurt rental Location: 50 North Main, Logan, in the basement develop appreciation and stewardship for our Information: 435.797.1500; www.cainelyric.com information. (parking and entrance at the back of the tabernacle on natural world. The Center was built in 1924 and is 100 East.) Location: Utah State University Campus, Logan; 1050 Hours: Mon-Fri, 9:30 am-5 pm; Tues-Thurs, 9:30 am-9 located 1 mile up beautiful Logan Canyon on the N. 950 E. (in the southwest corner of the parking lot just The Dansante pm; Sat 9:30 am-2 pm Logan River. above and east of the football stadium.) The Dansante Building was built in 1900 and has Open: Year-round, except holidays Location: 2696 East Hwy 89, Logan Canyon Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-6 pm played a central role in the social life of the Cache Information: 435.755.5594 Lat/Long: 41.74203° N 111.76923° W Open: Year-round Hours: Tues-Fri 10 am-4 pm; second Sat of each month Information: 435.797.3264; www.usu.edu/orc Valley community for a century. For decades it 10am-4 pm served as the valley’s premier dance hall, hosting Museum of Anthropology, Utah State Information: Occasionally closed during open hours as many as 3,000 people on major holidays. It for off-site programs. Check sign on front gate. later became a clothing factory for two different University 435.755.3239; www.logannature.org This teaching museum houses exhibits on the companies, then fell into disrepair. After years of early inhabitants of the Great Basin and other decline, the building was purchased by the Utah regions of the world. Free admission. Tony Grove Lake—Wasatch-Cache Festival Opera Company and was fully renovated Location: Utah State University campus, 400 North 700 National Forest and expanded to a 45,000 sq. ft. facility that now East, Logan; Old Main Building (on the brow of the hill at Known as the crown jewel of the Bear River Range, houses the company’s administrative offices, a the western edge of the campus), Room 252. Hours: Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm, with some special this glacial lake greets visitors with an explosion of 124-seat recital hall, practice rooms, rehearsal halls, programming on Saturdays summer wildflowers and lush green plants. Tony wig and makeup, prop, costume and scene shops. Location: 59 South 100 West, Logan Open: Year-round Grove was formed by powerful and slow-moving Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm Information: 435.797.7545 glaciers, as evidenced by the huge boulders Information: 435.750.0300; www.ufoc.org

22 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 23 and other presentations. An extensive genealogy Utah State University Campus library is located in the basement and volunteers Utah State University was founded as a land grant can help you research your ancestors. Free agricultural college in 1888 and has developed tabernacle tours are available Mondays through into a major research university, especially in Saturdays throughout the summer. agriculture, natural resources and space dynamics. Location: 100 North Main, Logan Hours: Vary The campus is filled with historic buildings and Information: 435.755.5598 attractive landscaping. The oldest building on campus is Old Main, on the western edge of the Logan’s Historic Downtown campus. Its tower with the “A” (for Aggies) on top is visible from most of Logan. Many beautiful turn-of-the-century homes and Location: The main area of campus is bound by 400 buildings are located in Logan. Don’t miss the North to 700 North and 200 East to 1200 East. Bluebird Cafe, the Logan Tabernacle or the Epis- Information: 435.797.1000; www.usu.edu copal Church. Pick up a 45-minute downtown walking tour guide at the Visitors Bureau in the Whittier Community Center historic County Courthouse (199 N. Main). Guided The Whittier School was built in 1908 and holds walking tours are also available during summer school-day memories for many locals. It was months. The Logan Center Street Historic District purchased from Logan School district in 1992 and (listed on the National Register of Historic Places has undergone various rehabilitative projects. and roughly bounded by 200 North, 200 South, A self-guided walking tour of the building is 200 East and 600 West) features homes, churches available. The Whittier Community Center provides and the old courthouse in Classical Revival, Prairie meeting space for over 25 different community School and Late Victorian styles. Some of the finest organizations. There is an accessible community The beautifully restored Cache County Courthouse is home of the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau and gift shop. homes can be viewed by starting at Main Street, garden, playground and neighborhood park then traveling west on Center Street. on the grounds, and a commercial kitchen and Information: www.tourcachevalley.com Ellen Eccles Theatre Mormon architect Truman O. Angell, and built gymnasium that can be rented. It is also home of This magnificent theatre was built in 1923 by the from 1877-1884 by the donated labor of early the Cache Valley School of Ballet, Contra dances, The Thatcher-Young Mansion Thatcher family. It hosted some of the country’s most pioneers. The modified Gothic building rests on martial arts, religious services and various clubs. The Thatcher-Young Mansion was built in 1878 Location: 290 North 400 East, Logan famous touring vaudeville acts and performances, a terrace of the ancient Lake Bonneville, and the by G.W. Thatcher and his wife Mary Ann Angell- Hours: Main office: Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm spent time as a movie theater, and fell into disrepair. exterior was built out of limestone and sandstone Young. The designer of the home is believed to Open: Year-round for various programs, It was restored to its original grandeur in 1993 and quarried locally. Access to the temple interior is classes and activities be Mary Ann’s cousin, Truman Angell Jr., who features a variety of local and touring performances reserved for Church members in good standing, Information: 435.753.9008 designed the LDS tabernacles in Brigham City each year. The Utah Festival Opera Company but the beautifully manicured grounds are open and Coalville, Utah, and in Paris, Idaho, as well is in residence during the summer months. The to the public. Lodging Location: 175 North 300 East, Logan as the Cache County courthouse in Logan. The beautiful building offers a splendid and charming Hours: Grounds, 7 am-9 pm fou ndat ion stone i s f rom t he Green Ca nyon Temple/ view of America’s theater past. Information: 435.752.3611 Anniversary Inn Location: 43 South Main, Logan Tabernacle quarry and the framing lumber came Information: 435.752.0026; from the Temple Fork Sawmill in Logan Canyon. Nestled in a shaded and quiet court and within www.cachevalleycenterforthe arts.us Logan Tabernacle The mansion has been carefully restored and walking distance of Logan’s historic tabernacle The Tabernacle was completed in 1891 and is a is now home to the Alliance for the Varied Arts, and LDS Temple, Logan Anniversary Inn provides Logan Mormon Temple striking example of an early Mormon pioneer gallery space, offices and classrooms. uniquely decorated rooms and quality lodging in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Location: 35 West 100 South, Logan its historic buildings. public meetinghouse. A beautiful pipe organ Hours: Tues-Sat, 11 am-4 pm Location: 169 East Center, Logan, Utah Temple is an easily visible icon of the Cache was installed in 1908 and the building is used Information: 435.753.2970; Information: 435.752.3443; www.anniveersaryinn.com Valley landscape. The edifice was designed by for Church conferences, community concerts www.cachevalleycenterforthearts.us

24 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 25 Best Western Baugh Motel Restaurants The Baugh Motel is family owned and operated and was built in 1957 on the site of an old trolley car Angie’s Restaurant depot. The registration office is an old gas station. Angie’s is a local gathering spot bustling with a The rock-walled ruins of a flourmill can be seen on cross-section of people from all walks life. Stop the northwest corner of the motel property where in for a cup of coffee at the counter, or try their the canal drops down from 100 North Street. homemade pies, cinnamon rolls and scones. While at the Baugh, dine at the onsite restaurant Delicious breakfasts are served all day at this located on the south side of the motel property. restaurant known for great home-cooked food and Location: 153 South Main, Logan cheerful and fast service. Information: 435.752.5220 or 800.462.4154; Location: 690 North Main, Logan www.baughmotel.com Hours: Sun-Thurs, 6 am -10 pm; Fri-Sat, 6 am-11 pm Information: 435.752.9252 Old Trapper Inn This cute inn along a quiet lane has been a The Bluebird lodging facility since 1943. The site features mini- This historic cafe has been in business since 1914 theme rooms in a separate building, and large and seen much business done over a cup of coffee theme rooms in the historic house built by Moses and a handshake. You’ll love the old-time marble Thatcher in 1861. Said to be the first frame house in soda fountain, ice cream specialties and original Logan, the house was owned by members of the menu items like minced ham sandwiches. Don’t Thatcher family until 1940, when it served a few miss the mural in the back room that depicts local years as a sorority house. The next owner turned history and predictions for Logan’s future. it into a motel. The current owners have been here Location: 19 North Main, Logan Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-9:30 pm; Fri and Sat, open since 1970 and have remodeled the facility, which until 10 Past meets present at the American West Heritage Center, 160 acres of living history. includes a suite with a full kitchen in the historic Information: 435.752.3155 house, available for stays by the week. Breakfast basket with your stay in the historic house. Caffé Ibis Depot. Try one of your favorite traditional Mexican Location: 55 North Main, Logan Location: 43 East 100 South, Logan Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm Information: 435.753.5602; www.oldtrapperin.net Located in historic downtown Logan, Caffe entrees or experience a wide variety of fresh salads, Information: 435.752.0647 Ibis features internationally renowned locally pastas, steaks, chicken and seafood. Café Sabor’s Seasons at the Riter Mansion roasted organic coffees and an assortment of hot outstanding food and fun atmosphere is the perfect El Toro Viejo Seasons at the Riter Mansion is a beautifully chocolates, teas, Italian sodas, healthy meals and place to spend an evening. Full bar available. Location: 600 West Center, Logan Home of authentic Mexican food, enchiladas, appointed luxury inn and conference center. The great desserts. Owners Randy and Sally provide Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-11 pm seafood and steak. Enjoy authentic Mexican beer stately Greek Revival/Georgian manor home, with a unique gathering spot for the community, with Information: 435.752.8088 with fresh salsa verde and tortilla chips; or try their its beautiful columned porch, was built at the turn of sidewalk tables and lively conversation. The cafe hot chocolate and Apple Burrito—a rich dessert the last century by a prominent pharmacist named features local artists’ work, and there’s live music Coppermill Restaurant sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, topped with Riter. The estate was often used as a social gathering many weekends. Location: 52 Federal Ave, Logan The Coppermill is located upstairs in the historic chocolate syrup and whipped cream. place and a center for music and entertainment. Hours: Mon-Thurs and Sat, 6 am-6:30 pm; Fri, 6-9, Sun, Emporium building, across Main Street from the Location: 1079 North Main, Logan The rooms have been updated to include whirlpool 8 am-6 pm Logan Tabernacle. It has become a traditional spot Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-11 pm; baths and fireplaces. This is a perfect retreat for an Information: 435.753.4777 Sun, noon-10 pm for business conferences, wedding receptions and Open: Seven days a week executive stay or romantic getaway. lunches and dinners out. Specialties include high- Information: 435.753.4084 Location: 168 North 100 East, Logan Café Sabor Information: 435.752.7727 or 800.478.7459; quality steaks, fresh halibut and hand-breaded www.theritermansion.com Café Sabor is Cache Valley’s south of the border shrimp. Chocolate lovers shouldn’t miss the Latino bistro located in the historic Center Street delicious turtle cake.

26 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 27 Factory Pizzeria Juniper Take-Out Mandarin Garden Their current location features dozens of ice cream This favorite spot was established by an Italian Juniper Take-Out is home of heavenly rolls and Mandarin Garden has been serving delicious flavors and Aggie-made cheeses. Cheese boxes family decades ago. The Factory is located honey butter, fried chicken and breaded turkey Mandarin-style Chinese food for more than 20 are available during the holiday season. Soups downstairs and is a great place for beer and pizza. breasts, french fries with the West’s famous fry sauce, years. Take-out available. and sandwiches are available. Look for cartons of Location: 119 South Main, Logan mashed potatoes, homemade desserts and more. Location: 432 North Main, Logan Aggie ice cream in the campus store, and in town Hours: Mon-Sat, 11 am-11 pm; Sun 11 am-10 pm Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am- 9:30 pm; Fri, 11 am-10 pm; Location: 35 East 400 North, Logan (Albertson’s at Macey’s and Lee’s markets. Featured on the Information: 435.752.9384 shopping center) Sat, noon-10 pm Hours: Tues-Thurs, 11 am -9:30 pm; Fri and Sat, until 10 pm Information: 435.753.5789 Cache Valley Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for Information: 435.752.3100 brochure). Formosa Location: Utah State University Campus, Logan; Mandarin-style Chinese food. Shaffer House Bakery Nutrition and Food Science Building, 750 North 1200 Location: 890 North Main, Logan Kamin Thai Cuisine Family owned and operated for over 25 years. This East. Hours: Mon-Fri, 11 am-9:30 pm; Sat, 11 am-10 pm; Sun, This restaurant is located in a charming cottage bakery is a local gathering spot for early morning Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-10 pm; Sat, 10 am-10 pm, May- noon-9 pm with beautiful landscaping that was originally a coffee and conversation, and features mouth- Sept. Closes one hour earlier Oct-April Information: 435.753.7889 Open: Year-round private home. Authentic Thai dishes are made from watering cinnamon rolls, an array of donuts and Information: Store: 435.797.2109, Office: 435.797.2112; Happy Sushi scratch with ingredients shipped from Thailand. other delicious pastries. Soups and sandwiches are www.aggieicecream.com Location: 51 West 200 South, Logan also available. Owner Mr. Lee is originally from Korea. He trained Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11am-3 pm and 5 pm-8 pm; Fri and Location: 1045 North Main, Suite A, Logan to be a sushi chef for two years prior to opening Sat, 11 am to 10 pm Hours: Mon-Fri, 5 am-6 pm; Sat, 5 am-5 pm Alvey’s Candies the Happy Sushi in 2005. Mr. Lee has developed Information: 435.755.6453 Alvey’s Candies is a local family-owned and his own style and proudly rolls each sushi so that The White Owl operated shop that creates delicious chocolates it is appealing to the eye and the palate. Seating Korean B. B. Q. & Market The Owl, as locals call it, is located in a former and candies, including the house specialty, the at the sushi bar allows you to watch the chef in Korean food and oriental foods market. bookstore and has been a favorite hangout for Alvey candy bar. Store owner Shari Alvey grew Location: 111 South Main, Logan up watching her grandmother make chocolates action. Fresh fish is flown in twice weekly. Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm decades, serving up locally brewed beers from Location: 20 West 400 North, Logan around the state. Located in historic downtown in her candy store and has carried on the family Hours: Mon-Fri Lunch, 11 am-2:30 pm; Mon-Thurs tradition. Dinner, 5 pm-9:30 pm, Fri Dinner 5 pm-10 pm, Sat 12 La Ranchera Logan, the Owl offers outdoor seating on the Location: 1300 North Main, Logan, in the Cache Valley pm-9:30 pm, Sun, 4 pm-9 pm Authentic Mexican grocery and taqueria, carnaceria rooftop deck during the summer. Proprietor John Mall Information: 435.752.1467 and panadería. Your hosts will be gracious and Calderwood can often be seen enjoying a beer while Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 am-9 pm; Sun, noon-5 pm Information: 435.753.8888; www.alveyscandies.com helpful, but speak very little English. You can buy chatting with the customers who are enjoying a Indian Oven imported Mexican foods, fresh-made tacos and mouth-watering burger or brat, or a bowl of chili Authentic Indian cuisine. Experience the unique other menu items as well as fresh breads, cookies in winter. Their signature veggie basket comes in Anderson’s Seed and Garden food and culture of India while dining at the Indian and pastries by the dozen or single serving. two sizes loaded with fried onion rings, breaded Anderson’s Seed and Garden reflects local Oven. Fresh aromatic breads and rice, meat and Location: 96 North 100 West, Logan mushrooms and cauliflower, zucchini strips and heritage not only because of its historic building, vegetarian dishes; many from family recipes. Family Open: Mon-Thurs. 9 am-6 pm; Fri, 8 am-10 pm french fries—with or without breaded chicken Information: 435.753.9136 but because of the agricultural community it has dining with at-the-table ordering or buffet. Try Raita, strips. Live music Thursdays at 9 pm. historically served. The building was constructed a tangy mixture of cucumber, tomatoes, onions and Location: 36 West Center, Logan Le Nonne Ristorante Hours: Every day, 11:30 a.m-1 a.m. in the late 1880s and was originally Sydney Steven’s spices, mixed with homemade yogurt. Take-out Implement Company. In 1942, Anderson’s Seed Enjoy authentic Tuscan Italian food in a beautiful Information: 435.753.9165 service available 11:30 am-10 pm Mon-Sat. and Garden was started by Nottie Anderson, and Location: 130 North Main, Logan historic home with lovely outdoor garden seating is now owned and operated by her grandson, Mark Hours: Mon-Sat lunch: 11:30 am-2 pm; dinner: 4:30 in the summer. Their ravioli is handmade. Shopping pm-10 pm A. Anderson. Anderson’s carries nursery stock Information: 435.787.1757 Reservations recommended. Location: 129 North 100 East, Logan Aggie Ice Cream and bulbs, tools, pesticides, organic products, lawn Hours: Lunch, Mon-Fri 11:30 am- 2 pm; Dinner, Mon-Sat, Utah State University, the state’s agricultural seeds, fertilizers, bulk vegetable and flower seeds, 5:30 pm-9:30 pm grass seeds, pasture mix, bedding plants, trees Information: 435.752.9577 college, has played an important role in pioneering the production of dairy products since 1888, when and shrubs and seasonal items. They have unique the first creamery opened in the Old Main building. bird feeders, locally made candles, cotton kitchen

28 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 29 towels for embroidery and weigh their bulk seeds Cache Valley Visitors Bureau Gift Shop Crumb Brothers Artisan Breads on an antique scale. Come in and talk with Mark Your one-stop shop for Cache Valley gifts and With years of experience in fine dining establishments, What about those or any one of the knowledgeable gardeners who products. Guidebooks, souvenirs, shirts, hats and owner Bill Oblock toured France and attended the San crazy addresses: work there. so much more. Francisco Baking Institute where he learned the art of Location: 69 West Center, Logan Location: Historic courthouse, 199 N. Main, Logan making artisan breads and pastries. These delicacies Mormon Town Planning Hours: Mon-Sat, 9 am-6 pm Hours: 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri Most towns established in the West by Open: Year-round Information: 435.555.1890; www.tourcachevalley.com are made using natural starters and simple fresh Mormon pioneers are laid out in the Information: 435.752.2345; ingredients in an environmentally friendly bakery. email: [email protected] typical pattern often referred to as the Charlie’s Supreme Ice Cream Fresh deli sandwiches feature locally grown vegetables “Mormon Village.” This pattern was a Charlie’s Supreme Ice Cream has been scooping and herbs and locally produced meats and cheeses. modification of a townsite plan known as Bluebird Candy up tasty ice cream (made locally at Heart to Heart Crumb Brothers supports the natural environment the Plat of Zion devised by Joseph Smith, The Bluebird’s rich hand-dipped candies are a Foods) for years. Visit Craig “Charlie” Earl’s shop of Northern Utah by landscaping their property with the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ chocolate-lover’s delight. Try their number one native grasses and plants, which you can enjoy from of Latter-day Saints. People lived in town and get a taste of real Utah ice cream. Open late for seller, the Victoria. They’ve been making candy the patio in summer. Featured on the Cache Valley and had large enough lots (usually eight weekend fun. since 1914, a true tradition. Featured on the Cache Location: 1219 North Main, Logan 1.25-acre lots to a large 10-acre block) Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for brochure). Valley Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for brochure). Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-11 pm; Fri and Sat, 11 am- Location: 291 South 300 West, Logan and at Cache to accommodate a barn, granary, other Valley Gardeners Market A second location is in the Albertson’s shopping midnight. Closes half-hour earlier on weekdays in winter. outbuildings, a garden and yard. Larger Information: 435.753.4355 Hours: Mon-Sat 7 am-1 pm farms were located outside the borders of center at 49 East 400 North. Open: Year-round the town, so farmers traveled to work in Information: 435.792.6063 their fields. Country Village Antique Mall Location: 75 West Center, Logan For years this was the location of Griffin’s Feed Streets are oriented on north-south Open: Mon-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Fuhriman’s Framing and Fine Art Supply, now a place to find the treasures you’ve and east-west axes in a grid pattern, with Albertson’s location: Mon-Sat, 10 am-7pm Locally owned and operated by Sue Fuhriman. Sue been searching for. Browse the individually the town square at the center. Streets Information: 435.753.3670 has an excellent eye for art and sells the work of local are named for the number of blocks in a stocked booths for collectable books, kitchen ware, artists, including her husband Jerry’s Cache Valley given direction from the town square. For furniture and a variety of other unique antiques. example, 200 East is the second street east Cache Valley Gardeners Market Location: 730 South Main, Logan landscapes, and work by artists like Colleen Howe, of the town square. Thus, you can locate This lively market features locally grown fruits and Hours: Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm David Winder and potter Sharon Brown-Mikkelson. vegetables and garden plants from the Northern Information: 435.752.1678 Location: 75 South Main, Logan any address in a Mormon-settled town Hours: Tues-Fri, 10 am-6 pm; Sat, 10 am-5 pm by knowing its coordinates: 550 East 200 Utah area, as well as hand- and homemade crafts Information: 435.752.0370 South is 5.5 blocks east and 2 blocks south and foods from local artisans and entrepreneurs. Cox Honeyland of the town square. On any Saturday from the first of May to the first The Cox family are fourth-generation beekeepers and Gossner Foods In 1996 the American Planning their company opened in 1929. The intermountain of October, enjoy live music played by local folks, This family-owned company was founded in Association presented the Planning area, with its dry climate, is considered one of the informative demonstrations of crafts and art and 1966 by Edwin Gossner, a cheese maker from Landmark Award to the Church of Jesus an array of fresh breads, cheeses, beverages and best areas for production of low-moisture honey Christ of Latter-day Saints in recognition Switzerland who came to Cache Valley to start a snacks. that stores well. Watch bees at work behind the glass of the contributions of Joseph Smith cheese business because he felt the conditions here Location: Pioneer Park at 100 South 100 East, Logan observation hive, and educational videos on honey and Brigham Young to the development Hours: 9 am-1 pm were ideal, similar to those in Switzerland. The production and why Utah is the Beehive State are of early Latter-day Saint settlements. Open: Saturdays, from the first of May-mid-October company specializes in several varieties of cheese, available for viewing and purchase. Gourmet honey “The planning and founding of more Information: 435.755.3950; www.gardenersmarket.org plus shelf-stable milk—a form of milk that does products and unique gifts are available. Featured on than 500 communities in the American not require refrigeration and that was pioneered at the Cache Valley Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for West is regarded by many planning Utah State University. Featured on the Cache Valley historians as one of the most significant brochure). Location: 1780 South Hwy 89/91, just south of Logan Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for brochure). accomplishments in the history of Location: 1051 North 1000 West, Logan Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; 10 am-6 pm June-December. American city development,” said Hours: Mon-Sat, 8 am-6 pm Open until 7 pm in summer Information: 435.752.3234; www.coxhoney.com Bruce Parker, former president of the Information: 435.752.9365; www.gossner.com Utah chapter of the American Planning Association.

30 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 31 Grandpa’s Shop that Cache Valley residents have always done what Lawrence Hills is a lifetime woodworker who they could, even in simple ways, to bring beauty to learned the craft in his father’s woodworking shop. their home and person.” Open: By appointment only or at the Cache Valley Wooden toys are well built to last for years and to Gardeners Market in summer. become heirlooms for later generations. Lawrence Information: 435.752.2289; email: [email protected] crafts handmade items for children such as rocking horses, wood block sets and a child-sized chair Limberpine Designs and table set. Some custom designs are available. Kirk Dahl makes hardwood cutting boards and Available at the Cache Valley Gardeners Market in small household furniture with locally harvested summer, or at the shop by appointment. Hours: 1970 North 1100 East, North Logan woods in most of their boards and furniture. By Open: Call for appointment. using urban hardwoods, they protect natural Information: 435.755.8010; forests and reduce transportation and energy costs. email: [email protected] Kirk has been making fine furniture for 15 years. Location: Cache Valley Gardeners Market or call for appointment Heart to Heart Foods Information: 435.755.7159; Cache Valley is home to many dairy farms and email: [email protected] dairy-related businesses. Ice cream is the house specialty at Heart to Heart Foods. Visit the Heart Masako Nakashio, Japanese Paper Artist Hit the slopes at Beaver Mountain Ski Resort, the longest running family-owned ski resort in the United to Heart factory store during summer and buy a States. It’s located just off the Logan Canyon National Scenic Byway and features four lifts and Masako is a Japanese Washi paper artist and has perfect powder. — Travis Seeholzer delicious Creamie or a Charlie’s ice cream by the been working with Japanese art since high school, 3-gallon tub. Charlie’s ice cream is also available at making Origami birds mounted on marble weights, Only By Hand at Marie’s Stylish Fabrics/Bernina Charlie’s Supreme Ice Cream in Logan. Location: 142 West 3200 North, Logan clear glass magnets with Washi paper designs and Embroidery, needlepoint, crocheting and Stylish Fabrics opened in the 1960s, supplying Hours: Mon-Fri, noon-4 pm Obi-inspired art in shadowboxes. The Obi is the other forms of needlework are very popular patterns and fabric for clothing. Today, the Open: Open to the public in summer traditional sash worn by Japanese women, and activities in northern Utah. Only by Hand shop specializes in fabric and batting for quilt Information: 435.753.9602 Masako has modified this sash to create beautiful carries supplies for needle workers, including making, a well-developed local craft. Their shadowbox displays. Hardanger and cross-stitch patterns by inventory is so complete and high quality that Just So Creations Location: Cache Valley Gardeners Market nationally known local artist Emie Bishop. Hours: By appointment many out-of-state customers send here for Sharon Ohlhorst has lived in the Bear River Information: 435.753.2678 Call for more information about classes and materials. Stylish Fabrics also sells machine- Heritage Area for 25 years. She makes polymer products. quilted quilts made by local women. The clay wearable art (earrings, barrettes, pendants, Location: 1414 E. 1220 N., Logan On the Avenue front windows usually have a colorful quilt pins, eyeglass leashes) and home décor items Hours: Wed.-Sat, noon-6 pm; or by appointment A unique boutique of traditionally hand-crafted Information: 435.752.1401; display. (eggs, kaleidoscopes, candle holders, business Location: 138 North Main, Logan gifts specializing in a variety of wood and fabric email: [email protected] card holders, pens, key rings). She uses all local Hours: Mon-Sat, 9:30 am-6 pm items for home décor. Handmade dolls, quilted Information: 435.752.4186 materials—including rocks or other natural items runners, candles, pillows, floral arrangements, as embellishments. Some of her items incorporate Rumplestiltskins framed art, antique furniture, collectibles and traditional quilt designs and others represent Monica Hall has been helping people create Sweet Peas Natural Market seasonal and holiday decorative items. Many items local landscapes. Polymer clay is man-made clay beautiful fiber arts since 2004. Here you’ll Located in a 1906 downtown building, Sweet are made by local Cache Valley artisans. Their with tremendous versatility as an art form. She find fine knitting yarns, wool, hand spinning Peas Natural Market carries products from quaint building was built in the early 1900s and is says, “While the medium that I use is different supplies, spinning wheels and all accessories for many “green” sources in an effort to lessen located in Logan’s historic downtown. fiber arts. Bring your projects to fiber arts night the impact on the environment. They are and modern, the items I create are very similar, Location: 34 Federal Ave, Logan a community market, emphasizing local in my mind, to those used and worn by residents Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 am-7 pm on the second and fourth Fridays, 6-9 pm. Location: 55 South Main, Logan producers of food and other goods. Part of in the valley throughout its inhabitation. I believe Information: 435.753.1150 Hours: Tues-Sat, 10 am-6 pm; closes at 3 on Thurs Information: 435.750.6161 their mission is to help support sustainable agriculture and make it possible for local

32 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 33 growers to stay in business. They carry Location: Look for Tig Works at local art festivals or Gardeners Market. organic produce, natural groceries and health Paradise Providence Information: 435.792.4667, 435.752.6553 and body care products. or 435.740.0591; Location: 25 West Center, Logan email: [email protected] Experiences Lodging Hours: Mon-Sat, 10:30 am-6:30 pm Information: 435.753.1939 Paradise Daughters of Utah Pioneers Providence Inn Bed & Breakfast Mendon Museum This old Mormon meetinghouse is built of local The Busy Bead Artifacts from the early history of Paradise and stone and nestled in the pleasant community of Christina is a self-taught jewelry and crafts maker. Experiences southern Cache Valley are preserved in this Providence, just south of Logan. The Old Rock She sells her products at the Gardeners Market in museum housed in the old Mormon tithing office. Church was built in 1871 and is listed on the National Logan and at other arts and crafts shows. She works Wellsville Hawkwatch Location: 8970 South 200 West, Paradise Register of Historic Places. The Providence Inn Bed with gourds (grows them, dries them and makes Most western hawk species can be viewed Sept-Oct. Hours: By appointment Information: 435.245.3842 & Breakfast was built as an addition in 1926. The bowls and birdhouses out of them), makes jewelry This site is located 3,000 feet above the canyon bottom, Inn provides comfort, charm, delicious breakfasts out of natural materials such as stones, shells and so be prepared for a 3-mile hike. Best to visit in early Shopping and a beautiful setting for a business or pleasure glass beads, and makes handmade soaps from all- fall when Hawkwatch International volunteers are trip. Small conference facilities available. natural materials such as palm, coconut and olive camped at the site. Visit Bridgerland Audubon Society Location: 10 South Main, Providence oils. She makes everything by hand. website for schedule and location of Hawkwatch Weeks Berries of Paradise Information: 435.752.3432 or 800.480.4943; Location: Cache Valley Gardeners Market, or call for The growing conditions in Paradise produce www.providenceinn.com appointment outings. www.bridgerlandaudubon.org Location: Deep Canyon Trailhead, located at the west Information: 435.764.0604; superior flavor in Weeks’ berries, including end of 300 North in Mendon. Take Center Street to 7200 email: [email protected] strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, Shopping West to 300 North, turn west. GPS: 41.71357° N 112.005° W huckleberries, blueberries and black, red and The Spirit Goat Information: www.hawkwatch.org white currants. They also produce juices, syrups Casper’s Malt Shoppe, Providence The Spirit Goat offers handcrafted soap made with and freezer jams available year-round. Stop by to Both Casper’s production plant and Casper’s Malt purchase their delicious wares, but call first in the Shoppe provide a 10-minute video presentation goat’s milk and a mixture of vegetable-based oils. Other natural ingredients, like oatmeal, honey, Nibley summer since often everyone is out in the fields. A that lets you discover the process of creating their roadside stand is located on the west side of Hwy famous confections and learn about the company’s and calendula petals, are added to selected soaps Shopping to provide specific skincare qualities. They also 89/91 in Wellsville near 4100 South. Look for their history. Featured on the Cache Valley Food Tour make other natural products including lotions, products in many local stores, including Cache (see Visitors Bureau for brochure). Windy Hollow Alpacas Location: 585 West 100 North, Suite I. Providence balms and pet shampoo bars. Valley Visitors Bureau Gift Shop, Cox Honeyland Cache Valley’s agricultural horizons are constantly Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-midnight; Fri-Sat, 10 am-1 am Location: Products can be purchased at Sweet Pea and at the Gardeners Market. Featured on the Cache Open: Year-round Natural Market and at the Gardeners Market (see expanding. Enjoy what nature gave the Andean Valley Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for brochure). Information: 435.713.0056 separate listings), or from the Spirit Goat website. people thousands of years ago—the luxurious Location: 880 East 8600 South, Paradise, or roadside 435.245.5960; Information: fiber from alpaca. No other fiber animal comes in stand or Gardeners Market www.spiritgoat.com Hours: Vary at different sites as many colors, from pure white to black and all Information: 435.245.3377 Richmond the browns, tans and grays in-between. At Windy Tig Works Hollow, alpacas are raised and sold, as well as the Experiences Freehand metal art formed and shaped in raw fleece and roving for spinning. Some fleece blacksmithing fashion. From 40 years of welding clothing products available to order. Farm visits High Creek Canyon experience, Bill Hedgecock has turned his interests welcome by appointment only. Birding is good all the way up High Creek to the to this creative art, forming and shaping copper Location: 5336 Hollow Road, Nibley trailhead at the road’s end. Look for Winter Wren and brass into whimsical shapes, wind spinners, GPS: 41.65093° N 111.82277° W (June), American Dipper, Plumbeous Vireo and wall hangings and unique three-dimensional star Hours: By appointment Information: 435.245.5123; www.whalpaca.com Western Tanager. The scenery is beautiful. Several and tree spinners. trails depart from the trailhead and provide access the high mountain habitats within Mount Naomi

34 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 35 Malt Shop makes delicious dairy treats, including

Casper’s famous Fat Boy ice cream sandwiches and River Heights Casco ice cream sundaes on a stick. The production plant location also includes a malt shop. Both Shopping Casper’s production plant in Richmond and Malt Shoppe in Providence provide a 10-minute video Zollinger’s Apple Cider/Fruit and Tree Farm presentation that lets you discover the process This Utah Century Farm was established in of creating their famous confections and learn 1904 by William Zollinger, a Swiss-German about their company’s history. Featured on the immigrant. He established one of the first apple Cache Valley Food Tour (see Visitors Bureau for orchards in Cache Valley. When grandson Ron brochure). Zollinger took over the management of the Location: 11805 North 200 East, Richmond; turn west family farm in 1980, he improved its operation. on 11600 North, go 1 mile to the entrance of Casper’s Ice At this historic farm you’ll find 13 varieties of Cream. GPS: 41.94694° N 111.80175° W apples, cider in the fall, and pumpkins and Hours: Richmond: Mon-Thurs, noon-9 pm; Fri-Sat, squash. Ron has expanded his horticulture noon-10 pm. Open one hour later in summer. activities to the production of a wide variety Open: Year-round of trees, shrubs and perennials. The farm and Information: Richmond: Malt Shop: 435.258.5219; land was put into a conservation easement to General: 435.258.2477. ensure the historic property will always be used for agriculture. Rockhill Creamery Location: 1000 River Heights Blvd., River Heights. Go Rockhill Creamery hand crafts raw milk cheeses east on Logan’s Center Street, turn south (right) on 1000 using traditional artisan techniques. The cheeses East. Farm is on the east (left) side of the street. Pete Schropp and one of his five “girls,” the Brown Swiss cows whose milk is used to make farmstead cheese at GPS: 41.72578° N 111.59307° W historic Rockhill Creamery in Richmond. are made with care from milk produced by the Hours: Nursery: 10 am-5 pm April-Nov; fruit and cider: farm’s Brown Swiss cows. The farmstead is listed 10 am-5 pm Sept-Dec Wilderness. Habitat consists of stream, riparian, is a favorite of many valley residents. Weekends on the National Historic Register, and was honored Open: Seasonally at the 2007 Utah Heritage Foundation Awards Information: 435.752.7810; mountain shrub, Bigtooth maple, aspen and are popular for their steak and shrimp dinners. email: [email protected] conifer. Visit this site any season except winter. Hamburgers are hand shaped and fries are fresh- for best adaptive use of an historic site. Tours are Location: 8 miles northeast of Richmond cut. Stop by on St. Patrick’s Day and try their available by reservation. Cheeses are sold at the GPS: 41.96851° N 111.69861° W traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner and Cache Valley Gardeners Market, Crumb Brothers Smithfield green-colored beer. The building once housed a Artisan Bread and Lee’s Marketplace in Logan. Richmond Daughters of Utah Pioneers Location: 563 South State St, Richmond mortuary and barber shop. GPS: 41.91107° N 111.8094° W Experiences Location: 39 West Main, Richmond Museum Hours: Sat 11am-4 pm GPS: 41.92245° N 111.80975° W Early Mormon, Native American and other local Open: mid-April to mid-October Hours: Mon-Sat, 7:30 am-10 pm; Sun, 7:30 am-noon Smithfield Livestock Auction history artifacts are preserved in this museum. Information: 435.258.1277; Open: Year-round Every Thursday at 10 am farmers, ranchers and Location: 29 South State St, Richmond www.rockhillcheese.com Hours: Thurs, 10 am-3 pm or by appointment Information: 435.752.0929 buyers converge on the livestock auction in Information: 435.258.5277 Smithfield where cattle, sheep and other livestock Shopping are sold. News and animals are both exchanged. If Restaurants you want to get a real feel for the agricultural way Casper’s Ice Cream Production Plant of life, try visiting the auction, and stop into the L.D.’s Cafe café for a burger and a drink. In the town that celebrates Black and White Days Location: 711 South 100 West, Smithfield L.D. Bowcutt started L.D.’s Cafe 45 years ago. (named after black and white Holstein cattle) to Hours: 10 am until everything is sold L.D.’s serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and honor dairy farming in Cache Valley, Casper’s Information: 435.563.3259

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Wellsville Martin James has been a beekeeper for a decade. Old Morgan Pea Factory Wellsville Tabernacle He is the Cache County and Box Elder County Experiences In 1920 the Morgan Pea Factory opened. It was This tabernacle was once used as a meetinghouse bee inspector. His family business is dedicated later bought by Del Monte Foods and has since by early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of to the support of Utah’s agricultural heritage and been turned into a can-making factory. Look for American West Heritage Center Latter-day Saints (Mormons). It was built in 1908 the long-standing tradition of bee keeping in the the brick building with the original name built Discover what western life was like from 1820 to and reflects Mormon architecture at the beginning Beehive State of Utah. Martin can be seen at the into the masonry. 1920 at this 160-acre living history center. Learn of the twentieth century. Its Gothic English Cache Valley Gardeners Market enthusiastically Location: Main Street in Smithfield to spin wool, weave rugs, milk a cow or just enjoy architecture and chapel with balcony, wooden explaining the work of the bees as viewed through GPS: 41.82045° N 111.83313° W the fresh mountain air and beautiful scenery on Information: 435.245.3439 benches and slanting floor are unique among a transparent demonstration hive. Buy Slide Ridge a wagon ride around the site. The center offers Cache Valley’s religious buildings. Honey at the Gardeners Market or other summer hands-on learning as you visit with Native Location: 75 South 100 East, Wellsville festivals or directly from the company. Shopping Americans, mountain men and pioneers dressed in Hours: Tours available Open: By appointment period costume. Visit the spacious welcome center Information: 435.245.0795 Information: 435.752.4956; Smithfield Implement featuring exhibits on local history, a spectacular email: [email protected] This farm and ranch supply business was founded view of the Wellsville Mountains and a gift shop Shopping in 1914, and has always housed dry goods or featuring Made in Utah products. During the mercantile. J.M. Roylance bought it in 1919, and summer season, wander through arts and crafts American West Heritage Center Gift Shop his son still runs it. Just strolling through the aisles demonstrations, visit military encampments, The gift shop features many Made in Utah, Native of this 100+-year-old building is an experience Native American villages and mountain men American and Western items. Located in the you won’t forget. The store stocks everything rendezvous sites. Enjoy a Dutch oven dinner and Welcome Center. from implement parts in the basement to “boots, Location: Wellsville, 6 miles south of Logan tap your toes to western entertainment. on US Hwy 89/91 britches and hardware” on the main floor. You can Location: Wellsville, 6 miles south of Logan on US Hwy 89/91 GPS: 41.6607° N 111.8991° W get Dutch ovens, canning equipment, cowboy hats, GPS: 41.6607° N 111.8991° W Open: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-4 pm rubber irrigating boots, blue jeans, tools, kitchen Hours: Living History site: Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Information: 435.245.6050; www.americanwestheritagecenter.org gadgets and just about anything else. Many locals Welcome Center: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-4 pm Birder’s Paradise feel great loyalty to Smithfield Implement and Open: Welcome Center: year-round except holidays; Living history site: Memorial Day-Labor Day. With three national would rather shop there than anywhere else. S.C. Creative Studios wildlife refuges, a federal Location: 99 North Main St, Smithfield Information: 800.225.FEST or 435.245.6050; Sean Cudney was born and raised in Wellsville. www.awhc.org waterfowl production Hours: Mon-Sat, 9 am-5:55 pm His interest in sculpting began with other art Information: 435.563.3211 area, extensive marshland forms, including engraving. Sean uses mostly Wellsville Daughters of and a wide variety of urban woods such as oak, black walnut and cedar; mountain habitat, the Bear Trenton Utah Pioneers Museum also local stone. His sculpture themes range from River Heritage Area bird See a collection of pioneer artifacts and take a tour historical figures to Native American and wildlife population is numerous Shopping of the Mormon tabernacle in the first town to be themes. and varied. Bridgerland established in Cache Valley (the south end of the Location: 320 East 100 North, Wellsville Audubon Society, www. Hours: 9 am-6 pm by appointment. Brindley’s Harness Works valley, just off Hwy 89/91). bridgerlandaudubon.org, Location: Wellsville Tabernacle, Main and Center Open: Call first in Logan, Utah, is one of Marla Brindley Trowbridge carries on a century-old Streets, Wellsville Information: 435.770.2537; www.seanstudios.com the area’s largest and most tradition of harness making and leather repair. She Hours: By appointment active clubs. Their website Information: 435.245.3643 makes and repairs anything from reins to full harness offers maps, numerous and gear for horses. She also makes leather apparel. links to other birding Location: Trenton sites and information Hours: By appointment Information: 435.563.5394; email: [email protected] on free field trips. Also visit www.seidaho.org/ bird_chart.htm and www. bearriverheritage.com, Things To Do.

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Preston Area Chamber of Commerce after the Mormons settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, Location: Twin Lakes Road. Take Westside Hwy from He tried different meats and flavorings until 49 N. State St., Preston, 83263 they began colonizing nearby areas. The first pioneer Dayton, north he settled on the best recipes, which he kept GPS: 208.852.2703 settlement in Cache Valley was at Wellsville in 1856, 42.1911° N 111.96493° W. secret. Jay joked that the whole family smelled www.prestonidaho.org although cattlemen tending Brigham Young’s herds were like beef jerky until 1977 when the hobby went [email protected] there earlier. They encountered the area’s cold winters, Restaurants pro and he started producing commercially out which killed the cattle and prevented settlement efforts of his convenience store. Papa Jay’s also makes Cache Valley was originally named Willow Valley until a few years later. The southern, or Utah portion of Papa Jay’s (see listing under Shopping) homemade beef sandwiches and other lunch because of the abundant willows growing along its Cache Valley hosts 80% of the valley’s population, while specials you can enjoy in his café corner. Papa many rivers and streams. Later, the name was changed the northern end in Idaho is more rural. Shopping Jay’s will turn your wild game into delicious to Cache Valley for the practice of early fur trappers to jerky or provide other custom orders upon cache, or hide, their furs in the area. Papa Jay’s World Famous Beef Jerky request. Stop by on your way through the scenic The valley is about 50 miles long, 20 miles wide, Clifton Locally owned and operated for many years area around Clifton and make Papa Jay’s your surrounded by rugged mountains and straddles the by local entrepreneur Jay Moyle, Papa Jay’s stop for lunch. Experiences grocery is now owned by his daughter Mary, Location: 10 S Main. Take Westside Highway from Utah-Idaho border. It is a green oasis in the arid West Dayton, north and even greener because of the irrigation system that who continues the tradition of making her dad’s Hours: Mon-Sat, 8 am-7 pm was established by early settlers. Twin Lakes famous homemade beef jerky. Jay always enjoyed Information: 208.747.3772; www.papajays.com/index.htm The area was originally only known to Indians This wetlands area offers songbirds, marsh birds, talking about the history behind drying meats (primarily Shoshone and Ute) and fur trappers. Soon water fowl and many loons in the spring. Visit this and experimenting with making jerky at home. site spring and summer.

40 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 41 was the first structure when Franklin was settled. Franklin Next to the Relic Hall is the stone building that was used as the Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Experiences Institute, part of the cooperative movement instituted under Brigham Young. The idea was to Pioneer Historic National Scenic Byway locally produce as much of what was consumed On this route, travelers can retrace some steps as possible, to avoid dependence on “imported of Idaho’s pioneers and follow the path of early- goods” from the coasts. day Yellowstone Park visitors. From Franklin, Location: 111 E. Main Idaho’s oldest settlement, it follows US Hwy 91 Hours: Summer season, June 1-Sept 30, Tue-Sat, 11 am-3 pm, by appointment during off season. north to Preston, then Idaho State Hwy 34 north Information: 208.646.2309 through Thatcher and Grace to US Hwy 30. It then goes east to Soda Springs where it meets the Oregon Trail-Bear Lake Scenic Byway and Hatch House and Doney House from there it heads north on Idaho State Hwy The Hatch house is a Greek Revival style house 34 to the Wyoming border. This route offers the built with local limestone in 1872 by Lorenzo H. shortest distance and time between Salt Lake Hatch, one of the earliest settlers of Franklin. A City and Yellowstone Park. Check the website carpenter and farmer, he was the first Mormon for the Pioneer Historic National Scenic Byway Idaho legislator and served as mayor and at www.pioneerhistoricbyway.org/ For more Mormon bishop of Franklin. Since Hatch was the information, visit the information kiosk at the local bishop, he built his house large enough to south approach to Franklin, or stop by LaTienda accommodate visiting dignitaries and travelers. The original floor plan included a front parlor, Franklin is the oldest town in Idaho and early settlers actually thought they were in Utah. This mercantile is located on convenience store located at 2 South State Street historic Main Street. — Lisa Duskin-Goede in Franklin. hallway and staircase on one side, a kitchen in the Location: Begins at the Utah-Idaho state line back and four bedrooms (three upstairs and one Location: 1145 N. Westside Hwy GPS: 42.01354° N 111.80423° W downstairs). A brick addition was built in 1905. Hours: By appointment Information: Preston Chamber of Commerce: Descendants of L.H. Hatch lived in the house until Dayton 208.852.2703; Soda Springs Chamber of Commerce: Information: Home: 208.747.3671, Cell: 208.851.1108 the 1940s. The home is on the email: [email protected] 888.399.0888 Shopping National Register of Historic

Places but is not open to the Heritage Sites Creations by Coral Viking Leather public.This is also the site of Cache Valley Heritage Coral Cahoon learned to crochet from her Thirty years ago Max Gundersen started in the the Doney house, which has Driving Tour grandmother and other teachers and has upholstery business in the Salt Lake City area. Franklin Relic Hall been moved from its original A self-guided heritage been crocheting for 30 years. She has been in Since moving to Idaho in 1974, he has created The village of Franklin is the oldest European- location. Built in 1864 by John driving tour of Cache business since 1998 perfecting her own custom and tooled leather products including gun cases, American settlement in Idaho, established in April Doney, it is the second oldest Valley provides an designs and instructions for heirloom doilies. chaps, bridles and other items. The business has 1860 by Mormon pioneers moving northward from house in Idaho and a good enjoyable day of learning about the history and Heirloom doilies have your surname or other a large market, both local and nationally, and Utah. The Relic Hall, a museum of local history, example of a pioneer rock settlement of this area. The lettering crocheted into a design that can be sells to major stores and mail order companies. is housed in a log building built as a museum in house. View both houses from Location: 1439 N. Westside Hwy 1937 in tribute to the log homes of the early settlers. tour takes you through 30 framed. Coral’s signature pineapple-edged Hours: Mon-Fri 8 am-4:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm the street. cities and towns located Exhibits inside the Hall have remained relatively Location: 125 E. Main doilies make a beautiful gift to last a lifetime. Information: 208.747.3260 in Cache Valley, Utah and unchanged since they were installed in 1937. The Old Village Hall and Jail Call Coral for an appointment. Idaho. You can obtain a collection includes farm implements, photos of Location: 122 E. Main Hours: By appointment during city copy of the Cache Valley settlers and a Yellowstone Park touring stagecoach. office hours; Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm Historic Driving Tour from In addition, there is a replica of the old fort that Information: City office: 208.646.2300 the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau located in the historic courthouse at 199 North Main St. in Logan.

42 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 43 Restaurants Preston La Tienda and Borderline Grill Experiences Originally founded by Billy Hobbs, La Tienda has been in business for over 30 years. Traditionally, it was a gathering place for locals to meet and Glendale Reservoir discuss the day’s business over coffee. The Idaho This site offers songbirds, birds of prey, marine lottery tickets for sale and a large variety of beers birds, marsh birds and waterfowl. Camping and restrooms are available. Visit this site any season. also make it a popular spot. La Tienda expanded Location: 3 miles northeast of Preston its operations in 2007 in this remodeled building GPS: 42.12906° N 111.8078° W to incorporate the Borderline Grill with its seafood and prime rib dinners. The new Beer Den cools Oneida Narrows Reservoir 2,000 cases of domestic and imported beers and This area contains wetland and juniper habitats. a wine room highlights 200 of the finest of Idaho, Expect to see songbirds, birds of prey, upland Oregon, Washington and California wines. La birds and water fowl. Some visitors have seen Tienda is not an ordinary convenience store—it’s Trumpeter Swans in the winter as well as Wild a destination in and of itself! Turkeys, eagles, Osprey and pelicans. Visit this Location: 2 S. State St. site any season except winter. Hours: Borderline Grill—Weekdays 7 am-9 pm; Location: 15 miles northeast of Preston. Take State Hwy Weekends 7 am-10 pm; Sun 7 am-7 pm 34 north of Preston, turn east on State Hwy 36 to the Open: La Tienda—24 hours a day, seven days a week. Oneida Narrows Road sign. Information: 208.646.2402 GPS: 42.27888° N 111.74438° W

Mechanized machinery sorts potatoes off a conveyor belt as part of the fall harvest of Idaho’s famous potatoes. Shopping Riverdale Hot Springs — Lisa Duskin-Goede Riverdale Resort features a large outdoor swim- La Tienda (See listing under Restaurants) ming pool and hot tubs fed by natural hot water, Indians responsible for raids on settlers. The or little bundles of cloth left by visitors to the site. including a therapeutic jetted tub. A hydro-tube Indians had been pushed out of more and more of Please do not disturb them. pool, children’s pool, gaming room and snack their lands in northern Utah and some of them had Location: About 2.5 miles northwest of Preston Oxford on US Hwy 91 bar make this a good family outing. The resort reacted by attacking settlers. In the early morning GPS: 42.15288° N 111.90733° W Experiences has eight motel rooms with hot tubs in every darkness, the soldiers attacked the winter camp of room. Visit www.riverdaleresort.com. Chief Bear Hunter on Battle Creek, trapping them Location: Five miles north of Preston, Idaho, next to the in the ravine. The soldiers slaughtered at least 250 Oneida Stake Academy Oxford Slough Bear River at the intersection of State Hwy 34 and 36 men, women and children (some accounts say The Oneida Stake Academy started in 1888 in This wetlands area offers songbirds, shore GPS: 42.16467° N 111.8376° W Franklin, Idaho, and was one of many schools Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am-9 pm, except on Fri 10 am-10 pm it was 400). It was the worst massacre of Native birds, marine birds, marsh birds, waterfowl and founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Sandhill Cranes. Visit this site any season but Information: 208.852.0286 Americans in the West, but received little attention email: [email protected] day Saints. When the time came in 1889 to winter. in part because it occurred during the Civil War Location: 1 mile north of Oxford. Take Westside Hwy when Americans’ attention was more on events construct a building for the academy, Preston from Dayton, north Heritage Sites in the East than those in the West. The event is was chosen as the location because it was centrally GPS: 42.2784° N 112.01212° W noted by several historical markers on US Hwy located in the region. It is the oldest academy Bear River Massacre Site 91 outside of Preston. The various markers show building still standing. Ezra Taft Benson and On January 29, 1863, Colonel Patrick E. Connor how the event has been remembered; first as a Harold, B. Lee, former Mormon Church presidents, led a group of California Volunteers from Fort “battle,” and later as the massacre it was. There were among graduates of the school. In 2002, the Douglas in Salt Lake City to search for Shoshone are often items of remembrance such as feathers Franklin County School District needed the land occupied by the empty Academy building to

44 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 45 expand facilities at the high school and declared by Franklin County Theater Arts Council and entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights. oil paintings and limited edition prints. Living in the building would be razed if funds could not Northern Cache Valley’s Theatre Guild. The Their regular season is May to October and by western Wyoming and southeast Idaho influences be found to move it. A tremendous outpouring opera house also shows current movies. Call special arrangements for group parties anytime. Russell’s choice of subject matter. Not only does of community, regional, state and even national for information. Location: 2106 N. Deer Cliff Road, 8.5 miles up he create the sculptures, but he also makes the support raised the required $1.2 million. On Location: 70 S. State St. Cub River Canyon. Take Cub River Road east, molds from which the limited editions are made. Hours: Call for play and movie times December 10, 2003, the building was lifted from its Open: 208.852.0088 about 4 miles south of Preston, between Franklin Through extensive research and development, he foundation and moved two blocks to Benson Park, and Preston. now uses two casting media: Stone casting allows a process that took a week. It is now being restored GPS: 42.12933° N 111.70577° W an exact solid cast of the original using a granite Lodging Open: June-Aug: Open 5 pm daily, except Sun. May, as a museum and community center; donations are Sept, Oct: Thurs, Fri, Sat, open 5 pm particle composition, while cold cast bronze uses still needed to complete the project. For more of the Cub River Canyon Guest Ranch Holidays: Open at noon. Closing times vary. a more extensive mold and cast development and story visit www.mormonhistoricsitesfoundation. Information: 208.852.0643 is formed of metals and resin. Call Russell at Bear Cub River Canyon Guest Ranch is located org/projects/oneida.htm Claw to see their work. at the site of Watercress Springs. Watercress Location: Benson Park at the corner of Oneida St. Mis Amores Mexican Restaurant Location: 22 N. State St. and 100 E. Springs is technically not a hot springs, but Hours: By appointment Rosa and Gordon Brewster are your hosts at this GPS: 42.09611° N 111.87425° W instead is a “warm springs” at 78 degrees Information: 208.852.3060 family owned restaurant featuring delicious, Open: By appointment Fahrenheit. As the Shoshone Indians traveled Information:Oneida Stake Academy Foundation, Inc., authentic Mexican and American food. At this back and forth from their summer hunting Idaho Made c/o Necia Seamons, 208.852.1837 location since 2002, Gordon and Rosa have grounds in Wyoming to their winter camps Tracy Carpenter was born and raised in Preston, developed their own popular menu and recipes. Shoshone Trail near the hot water springs on the Bear River Idaho. His great-great grandfather, a Swiss- Try the hearty homemade chicken soup, steaks, German immigrant and one of the first settlers of The Shoshone Indians used this trail system west of Preston, they stopped and camped tacos and burritos. Franklin in 1860, was a Zimmerman. The name was to cross the mountains between Cache Valley here. Good food, shelter and a warm water Location: 101 N. State St. changed to the English, Carpenter, reflecting his and Bear Lake Valley and on into Wyoming. spring were great attractions for them. The Hours: Mon-Thurs 11 am to 9 pm; Fri and Sat 11 am-10 pm trade as a craftsman. Tracy Carpenter is inspired When Mormon settlers came, they used the Hull family established a 620-acre ranch in the early 1900s and the Murdocks have Open: Closed Sun. by his ancestry. A self-taught wood worker, he trail to take mail between the valleys. A marker Information: 208.852.7133 crafts custom furnishings, period pieces and does commemorating the pioneer mail route is located recently converted the property to year-round custom restoration and built-ins using both local up Cub River Road (County Road 406 that turns recreation facilities, including a year-round Shopping and out-of-state woods. You can see photos of off US Hwy 91 about 4 miles south of Preston, geothermal outdoor pool. Located next to Tracy’s work at www.idahomade.com or call for Idaho). The markers are about 12 miles up Cub the Deer Cliff Inn in Cub River Canyon. Visit www.cubriverguestranch.com. Angela’s Scenic Wonders an appointment. River Road. When you get to the fork in the road, Location: 1942 N. Deer Cliff Rd., 8.5 miles up Cub Angelica I. Nielson has been a freelance Location: 865 Ranch Loop Rd., Preston. Go 1.3 miles up Cub take the Willow Flat, Franklin Basin turn. There River Canyon. Take Cub River Road east, about 4 photographer since 1988. Her photos have been River Road, (about 4 miles south of Preston, between Franklin and Preston), then 2 miles up 3600 E./Nash Rd. are two markers; one at Thomas Spring and one miles south of Preston, between Franklin and Preston. published in travel brochures, in the Franklin a little further on. The GPS coordinates are for GPS: 42.12933° N 111.70577° W Hours: By appointment Information: 208.852.2124 County “BARN Again!” publication, “Barns Information: 208.852.5588 or 208.406.1447 the first marker. GPS: 42.14559° N 111.64217° W email: [email protected] and More” (available to view at Larsen-Sant public library in Preston), “Historic Barns of True Value Mart Restaurants Southeastern Idaho” and “Idaho Magazine.” Worm Creek Opera House Location: 153 E. 200 N. Bob’s Mart, as locals have called it in the past, was This old theater was named after a creek Hours: By appointment only in operation for nearly 50 years as J.C. Penney’s. In the flows through Preston. The theater was Deer Cliff Inn Information: 208.852.2889 1987 Bud Elwell took over operation and with the reopened about 30 years ago and now serves Deer Cliff Inn sits right on the scenic Cub River help of Bob Merrill and Steve Bergquist, established as playhouse for students performing in and has been family owned and operated Bear Claw Inc. a True Value Hardware store. The building was Westside High and Preston High musicals and since 1940. Their steak, seafood, local trout and Russell D. and Susan Jorgensen have a national originally built by J.C. Penney in 1938 and was performers in general from Northern Utah famous roasted chicken and honey buttered and international following in art circles for their the second store in the J.C. Penney chain, which and Idaho. Other productions are presented scones can’t be beat. The restaurant features live wildlife and western art, limited edition sculpture, originated in Kemmerer, Wyoming, some

46 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 47 sold nationally and internationally. Belt buckles, hat pins, bolo ties and tie racks are available. Visit Whitney www.wildgoldltd.com. Location: 306 E. 400 S. Whitney, Idaho Hours: By appointment Whitney was known as Hull’s Crossing because Information: 208.852.3310 of the placement of the Hull family farms and was settled by families from Franklin who needed Thatcher extra land for crops. Prior to building their homes in 1869, they planted crops and started farming. Experiences In 1888, after the railroad came through, the town was given its present name. To this day, Maple Grove Hot Springs Whitney remains a farming community. In the early 1900s, the Hopkins family homesteaded the site where this hot springs Heritage Sites was developed and for many years was known to locals as Hopkins Hot Springs. You can read Ezra Taft Benson Home and Gravesite about the interesting history of this family and Whitney was the boyhood home of Ezra Taft the original uses of the site by visiting the front Benson who served as Secretary of Agriculture in desk of Maple Grove Hot Springs. Hopkins the Eisenhower Administration and as president Hot Springs became Maple Grove Hot Springs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1945 and was operated as a commercial hot from 1985 to 1994. The home in which he was springs into the 1960s. The Timmons family raised and the red gambrel-roofed barn still bought the springs in 1999 and has put forth stand on the family farm. The home and farm are The Mink Creek Ghost Sunset at Maple Grove Hot Springs. The small ranching community tremendous effort in restoring the facilities, private property, not open to the public. Benson of Mink Creek at the north including crafting two beautiful stone pools that is buried in the Whitney cemetery nearby. 100 miles to the east. Current quilts are on display and for sale and quilt classes Location: 2003 E. 800 S. end of Cache Valley, Idaho, immediately overlook the Bear River. Facilities is home to the famous local owners carry on the tradition are offered on Tuesdays. At Christmastime, True include shower rooms and a kitchen for the use phantom, the Mink Creek of True Value Hardware. As Value Mart sells tree permits in time for cutting for of all patrons. Campsites are available and can be Shopping Ghost. The ghost was said you walk on the hardwood the holiday season. Parking for True Value Mart is reserved individually or in groups. Maple Grove to have arrived in a rushing floors to explore the aisles, located on the street and in the back. Hot Springs is located along the Bear River at Fabric Farm wind at a farmhouse in the you’ll get the historical feel of Location: 44 S. State St. Hours: Mon-Sat 9 am-7 pm the north end of Oneida Narrows reservoir in Eileen Winward owns this business and makes canyon, attacking a young girl the building. In addition to Information: 208.852.2627 southeastern Idaho’s scenic Oneida Narrows custom quilts, uses machine quilting and sells by choking her. This occurred hardware and sporting goods, canyon. This stretch of the Bear River is home fabric and sewing supplies. Her business is also repeatedly over a period of time, True Value Mart carries and no effort of the residents, to various songbirds, birds of prey, upland and located in a historic neighborhood in Whitney. products like Honda Power Wildgold Location: 1173 S. 1600 E. including prayer, blessings and water fowl including Trumpeter Swan, Wild products, Russell Stover J o h n R a s m u s s e n i s k n o w n f o r h i s a n t l e r c a r v i n g s a n d Hours: Mon-Fri, 10 am-6 pm; most Sat, 10 am-2 pm neighbors staying in the home, Turkey, eagle, Osprey and pelicans. antler composite products made of 70% pulverized Location: 11386 N. Oneida Narrows Rd., Thatcher. The Information: 208.852.1419; email: [email protected] was able to rout the spirit. The candies and Wrangler jeans. To serve the local community antler. The artwork is sculpted and then painted turnoff to Oneida Narrows Rd. is about 18 miles north of family eventually left the area in great detail. Raised near Island Park, Idaho and Preston, off State Hwy 34 after the death of their daughter better, the store also has a Preston resident for over 20 years, John has been GPS: 42.30887° N 111.708° W who had been the target of the a tuxedo rental, balloon Hours: 10 am-10 pm, 363 days a year including holidays. attacks. Some people say the bouquets and Boy Scouts of carving since 1978. He creates images of game and Closed one Tue in April and Oct for pool cleaning ghost was the avenging spirit of America supplies. Explore the other birds, moose, wild sheep and others. He will Open: Year-round a wealthy Danish relative who fabric department, where carve exotic animals on consignment. His work is Information: 208.851.1137; was killed by the girl’s father well known by hunters and collectors alike and is www.maplegrovehotsprings.com after a visit. After the family moved away, the ghost never troubled the area again.

48 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 49 exploration and expansion brought mountain men, Shopping Downey trappers, traders, the Oregon Trail and pioneers to

the region. The coming of the railroads provided Thomas Mercantile Experiences convenient transportation to the general public This old-time mercantile is owned by Mary and and Lava Hot Springs developed into a health and Kim Thomas, who took over the business from Downata Hot Springs recreation area. Location: Just over the Franklin Kim’s parents. The store is located in Swan Lake, Natural hot water flows year-round through the County line, in Bannock County. Take US Hwy 91 which is actually in Bannock County, but it’s large swimming pool and hot tub at Downata Hot from Preston about 33 miles to the I-15 north on- such a local institution we decided to include Springs. The clubhouse provides changing room ramp and follow the signs to the McCammon/US it anyway. The Swan Lake post office is inside, and lockers plus a café and game room. A zero Hwy 30 exit. as is a large selection of fabrics and tools for depth water playground with water toys is popular Information: 208.776.5500; www.lavahotsprings.org email: [email protected] quilting. Kim is also a piano tuner and restorer with children. Two large hydro-tube rides thrill and usually has several pianos in the back room all ages. The resort accommodates overnighters that he’s working on when the flow of customers at a bed and breakfast or RV park with hookups. Swan Lake allows. Thomas Mercantile has had the same Tent sites are also available. The Marshall family phone number since the 1950s. bought the ranch in 1907 and built the first pool. Location: 31087 S. US Hwy 91, Swan Lake, about 18 Water and Irrigation The warm water was often used for Mormon Lodging miles north of Preston In the semi-arid West, water baptisms. The Marshalls joined forces with the GPS: 42.31314° N 112.00257° W is crucial for life to flourish. Information: 208.897.5561 Evans family and worked through the winter of Smithland Bed and Breakfast Mountain snows replenish 1929 to build the resort. Since then the resort has In a remote and peaceful setting, this business is ground and surface water been operated by many families and has recently in Bannock County, just a few miles north of the supplies when they melt in the spring. Drought and been upgraded by current owners. This site is just Franklin County line and about 21 miles north of Preston. Steve and Aprille Smith are your flooding are part of the north of Franklin County, in Bannock County. western experience, and past Location: 3.5 miles southeast of Downey on U.S. 91; hosts at their four-bedroom log home located on generations have taken steps about 25 miles north of Preston 480 acres with lots of wildlife and a few horses. GPS: 42.38963° N 112.08891° W to ensure there is enough Hours: June-mid-Aug: Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm. Off-peak Hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, hunting, water: damming streams season Sept 15-Mar 30 by reservation only bird watching or swimming at nearby Downata to store water in reservoirs Information: 208.897.5736 www.downatahotsprings.com Hot Springs are just some of the activities you can and developing a network email: [email protected] enjoy in the area. A handicap accessible room is of irrigation ditches. Stories available. of fights over water are Location: 10286 E. Red Rock Rd., Swan Lake. Off US still a common part of life Lava Hot Springs Hwy 91, about 21 miles north of Preston here. Watch for aqueducts, GPS: 42.35228° N 112.02625° W ditches, headgates (devices Open: Year-round, call for reservations Experiences Information: 208.897.5148; www.smithland.cc designed to direct the flow email: [email protected] of irrigation water down Lava Hot Springs one ditch or another), makeshift irrigation dams Lava Hot Springs is a community rich in Western (often just a sheet of plastic history. The abundance of natural resources in the held down by rocks) and region such as the odor-free mineral hot springs, clear irrigation water plentiful wildlife and water supplies attracted flowing down city gutters. many American Indian tribes who welcomed the People also enjoy recreation opportunity to bathe, rest and worship in an area on the rivers, lakes and regarded by all as neutral territory. Westward ditches—boating, “tubing” (floating on an inner tube), swimming, fishing, and — Lisa Duskin-Goede water skiing are all popular water-centered pastimes.

50 Cache Valley www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Cache Valley 51 Local Businesses and Institutions Entrepreneurship has flourished in this region, and many businesses are rooted in local culture. Small businesspeople like saddle-makers, sign Montpelier Bear Lake ountry painters, hot springs Paris owners, Dutch oven St. Charles Idaho Bear cooks and hunting guides continue to ply their trades. Utah Garden City Lake Laketown In the 1860s, Brigham Young instituted the Randolph “cooperative” movement, in which communities Woodruff banded together in businesses such as dry goods, milling, and cabinetmaking. Some The turquoise waters of Bear Lake are also known as the Caribbean of the Rockies. — Lisa Duskin-Goede modern businesses are the descendants of these Bear Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau thousands of emigrants through the region. Only one flatlands near the lake host raspberry fields and Location: 24 miles south of old “co-ops,” and some of the buildings in which settled here in those early years: Thomas L. “Peg Leg” towns; the steep mountains on the west are part of Montpelier on U.S. 89 2628 US Hwy 89 GPS: 42.06605° N. 111.38781° W. the co-ops were housed P.O. Box 26 Smith, who ran a cattle business, trading post and Wasatch-Cache National Forest, with its fir-juniper still stand. Cheese, ice horse exchange near present-day Dingle, Idaho. After forests, trails and wildlife. Fish Haven, Idaho 83287 Bear Lake Hot Springs cream, chocolate candies 1.800.448.BEAR (2327) the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, Brigham This region has numerous and other confections are www.bearlake.org Young feared the valley would fall into non-Mormon made in this region, with hot springs. The mineral hands and sent a group of people under the leadership Bear Lake Area some businesses dating water at Bear Lake Hot Bear Lake is a deep natural lake that changes color with of Charles C. Rich to colonize. Between 1863 and 1870, back to the early 1900s. Experiences Springs emerges at 118 the sky, and is best known for its breathtaking turquoise they established communities at Paris, Idaho, and You may see abandoned degrees Fahrenheit, and color sparkling on sunny days. Keep your eyes open for the Garden City (then called Kennedyville), Laketown, condensed milk and sugar Bear Lake cools while it is pumped legendary Bear Lake monster. The lake is the center of the Woodruff and Randolph, Utah. beet processing plants This site offers songbirds, birds of prey, from the mountain into the in some communities, Bear Lake Valley, which straddles Utah and Idaho. The valley is known for harsh winters and short shorebirds, marine birds, upland birds, tubs. Characteristics similar and we have agricultural Shoshone and Bannock Indians lived and hunted growing seasons (Woodruff averages only 57 frost- marsh birds, waterfowl, Sandhill Cranes to those of Lava Hot Springs implement stores that are in the valley for hundreds of years. The first whites free days a year), but there is fertile land for livestock. and many Canada Geese. Bear Lake is well to the northwest can be more than a century old. journeyed here as part of the Donald MacKenzie Surrounded by traditional ranching country, the known for ice fishing. The Bonneville Cisco found in this water. Area Another institution, Utah Snake River expedition of 1818-1819. In the 1840s, lake is a mecca for recreation. The wetlands on the State University, began as run occurs in January. residents come to relax in the Oregon Trail cut through the valley, bringing north end of the lake are a haven for wild birds; the Utah Agricultural College, the pools while enjoying the or the “A.C.” in 1888. view of Bear Lake. Food and Today, many businesses are located in historic buildings like old churches and depots.

52 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 53 to the refuge, as noted above. various galleries in Idaho and Utah. Leslie GPS: 42.2369° N. 111.3532° W. always loved frogs, and when she moved to Information: 208.847.1757 Bloomington and found that she lived in the middle of what locals called Frog Hollow, she Cisco’s Landing knew that would be the name of her business. Take a guided pontoon boat tour of Bear Lake Location: 250 North Main St, Bloomington from the Bear Lake Marina with a licensed Coast Open: By appointment; or stop in at the studio Guard captain. Personalized eco-tours of the Information: 208.945.2102 area feature historical, cultural, wildlife, ranches and hiking information. Location: 1065 North Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City, Utah Fish Haven, Idaho Hours: By reservation Information: 435.946.2717; cell 435.757.6377; Lodging www.ciscoslanding.com Bluebird Inn Oregon Trail-Bear Lake Scenic Byway The Bluebird Inn is an old Visit the National Oregon-California Trail Center homestead overlooking Bear Agriculture and celebrate the history and scenic wonders Lake, with lush gardens and European settlers brought of the 2,000-mile Oregon-California Trail, part an outdoor hot tub. There are agriculture to the Bear River of the largest voluntary migration ever. Sites five charming rooms, each watershed in the nineteenth century. It remains a vital in this area are documented within the diaries with a fireplace, and your economic activity here, and of emigrants, in military records and by early stay includes a full breakfast the landscape of fields, pasture mountain men and settlers. For more detailed in the sunny dining room. Location: 423 Hwy 89, Fish Haven lands, barns and irrigation information on Idaho’s scenic byways, visit ditches reflects this. Ranching — Andrew Jorgensen GPS: 42.00547° N. 111.4135° W. www.idahobyways.gov Open: Year-round, call or e-mail and dairy farming can be Location: Begins at the Utah/Idaho state line and follows for reservations found throughout the region, US Hwy 89 north to US Hwy 30, then north and west to camping are available. Canada Geese hatch by the hundreds; ducks and Information: 800.797.6448 and you’ll also find raspberry Soda Springs, where it meets the Pioneer Historic Byway. Location: 7 miles East North Beach State Rd on cranes follow shortly thereafter. This refuge also or 208.945.2571, www. The route then goes to Bancroft, Lava Hot Springs and farms (around Bear Lake and thebluebirdinn.com the northeast side of Bear Lake (Idaho) includes the 1,015-acre Thomas Fork Unit near McCammon, Idaho. Paradise in Cache Valley), GPS: 42.11018° N. 111.26522° W. the Wyoming border and the Oxford Slough GPS: 42.32278° N. 111.29725° W. potato farms (southeast Idaho) Hours: Mothers Day-Labor Day, 10 am-10 pm daily Information: Stop by the Oregon-California Trail Center and fruit orchards (Box Elder Open: May-October Waterfowl Production Area near Oxford, Idaho. Shopping in Montpelier. Information: 208.945.4545 To get to the north entrance, take the Paris-Dingle County, Utah). Businesses Rd (200 North) from Paris and go east just under Fish Haven General Store that support agriculture, such as equipment dealers, feed 3 miles. Follow the refuge signs, cross the canal Built in the early 1960s, this Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge Bloomington, Idaho stores, irrigation supply stores The Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located and watch for the sign on your right (south) side. was one of the first gas stations and feed lots, are located in on the north shore of Bear Lake. Over 18,050 acres Another access is from North Beach (Turnpike) Shopping along the shores of Bear Lake. many towns. Agriculture has of the Dingle Swamp, open water and grasslands Rd north of 400 North in St. Charles. Turn east Now a convenience store, it also helped bring new cultural have been dedicated to preserving bird and and drive several miles. This road runs along Frog Hollow Pottery carries Bear Lake raspberry groups into the region to wildlife habitat. The reserve is home to Sandhill the refuge’s southern border next to Bear Lake. Handmade wheel-thrown pottery by Leslie products and is still selling gas. work on farms and ranches. Coming from Montpelier, take Airport Rd south Location: 2637 US Hwy 89, Japanese-Americans came in Cranes, herons, Snowy Egret, white pelicans, Salinas includes plates, bowls and jars, and often Fish Haven the mid-twentieth century, Canada Geese and a variety of waterfowl. The from US Hwy 89 for about 7 miles to the refuge’s incorporate whimsical designs of local wildlife Hours: Mon-Thurs, 9 am-6 pm; and today, you may find refuge’s White-faced Ibis colony of 5,000 birds is north entrance. and plants. Leslie is self-taught and uses high- Fri-Sat, 9 am-10 pm, Location: North shore of Bear Lake along US May 1-Labor Day workers with Latino, Asian or one of the largest in the West. Trumpeter Swans fired porcelain clay for her work. She has been a Eastern European origins. The Hwy 89 in Idaho. There are several ways to get Information: 208.945.2148 are beginning to nest and use the refuge. In May, potter for 25 years and has shown her work at historic agricultural landscape includes hay derricks (made of large wooden poles), rail fences and old barns.

54 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 55 Gladys’s Place main intersection in Garden City GPS: 41.95762° N. 111.39931° W. This deceivingly small building is home to Hours: Market: Sun-Thurs, 7 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 7 am-10 a deli, souvenir shop, liquor store and Idaho pm; Market closes at 6 pm in winter lottery. Gladys is a well-loved mainstay of the Open: Year-round community. Come in, explore and introduce Information: 435.946.3454; yourself. Be sure to have one of Gladys’s deli www.bearlakecampgrounds.com/amenities.html sandwiches, baked beans or salads; call ahead and request one of her famous raspberry orange Bear Lake Motor Lodge pastries. Bear Lake raspberry products available. Motel rooms and restaurant. (See listing under Location: 2703 US Hwy 89, Fish Haven. Located on the restaurants.) west side of the highway. Location: 50 S Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Hours: Sun-Thurs, 8 am-8 pm; Fri-Sat, 8 am.-9 pm Information: 435.946.3271 Open: Year-round Information: 208.945.2306 Restaurants

Garden City, Utah Bear Lake Pizza Company and The Chocolate Bear Experiences After eating one of their famous pizzas, go next door for homemade chocolate-dipped raspberries! Location: 240 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Garden City Park Boardwalk Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm Amble through the cattails and learn about Information: 435.946.3600, summer season wetlands ecology on this short boardwalk from Garden City Park to the lakeshore. GPS: 41.93912° N. 111.39335° W. Bear Lake Restaurant and Motor Lodge A mom and pop diner serving old-time favorites as The Three Sisters formation inside Minnetonka Cave, which boasts nine limestone caverns. Pickleville Playhouse well as locally made goods. Try Lott’s homemade soups and cakes, or if you are too full, take home LaBeau’s & the Sweet Shoppe Quick and Tasty A delightful family operated theatre that features Location: 69 North Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City a jar of Chad’s homemade raspberry syrup, all Upon entering Garden City from Logan Canyon, melodramas and other productions suitable for Hours: Mon-Sat, 8 am-10 pm available in the restaurant. Information: 435.946.8821 Quick and Tasty greets you with fresh-cut home any audience, along with a meal for any appetite Location: 50 S Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City fries and raspberry shakes. before the show. And yes, there really was a Hours: Summer, 7 am-9 pm; winter, 7 am-8 pm Location: Located in Raspberry Square at 28 North Bear town called Pickleville, right here! It was named Information: 435.946.3271 LaBeau’s Too Lake Blvd, Garden City Location: 79 North Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Hours: Mon-Sat, 8 am-10 pm after Warren W. Pickle, who secured funding for Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-7-ish pm Information: 435.946.2875 a culinary water project in the 1870s. Pickleville Bear Trapper Steak House Information: 435.946.2725 Great rustic atmosphere brought to you by the and Garden City merged in 1890. Shopping Location: 2049 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City same folks who own Bear Lake Pizza Company Lakeside Pizza & Pantry GPS: 41.90942° N. 111.38941° W. and The Chocolate Bear. Fresh home-style pizza, lasagna, salads, cheese Hours: Nightly except Sunday; late June-early Sept. Location: 216 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Bear Lake Chevron Information: 435.946.2918; www.picklevilleplayhouse.com breadsticks and sandwiches. Try the homemade Open: Seven days a week in summer. Raspberry products and hunting and fishing raspberry ice cream at Grandma’s Pantry on a Information: 435.946.8484 licenses are available at this top-notch gas station Lodging hot summer night. Location: 80 West Logan Hwy, Garden City and convenience store. Hometown Drive-In Hours: Mon-Thurs 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm Location: 604 West Logan Rd, Garden City Location: 105 North Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Bear Lake KOA and Lakeview Market Open: Year-round Fri and Sat—Closed Sunday Hours: Daily, 6 am-9 or 10 pm in summer; 7 am-7 pm winter Hours: 8 am-10 pm Information: 435.946.2870 or 435.946.8865 Information: 435.946.3604 Cabins, camping sites and RV sites available. Full Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day service grocery on site. Information: 435.946.2727 Location: 485 North Bear Lake Rd, 1 mile north of the

56 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 57 Calder’s Lighthouse Landing Ice Fishing Calder’s family-operated raspberry farm has been in This building originally sat farther down on the Bear Lake has four species of fish that cannot be Montpelier, Idaho business for more than a decade. They sell wholesale beach, and in the early 1990s the owners moved found anywhere else in the world. The Bonneville to local malt shops, and have a stand for fresh picked it closer to the main street and opened the gift Cisco is the most well known and at the annual Experiences raspberry sales when the crop is plentiful. shop. They carry gifts, antiques and mementos. Cisco Disco in January try your hand at netting Location: Berry stand is located at approximately 425 N. Location: 18 North Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City some of these little fish through a hole in the ice! Bar H Bar Working Ranch Bear Lake Blvd, on the west side of the road across from Hours: 9 am-dusk This cattle ranch has been worked by the Harris Garden City Park. Open: summer season For more information on fishes of the region visit GPS: 41.94038° N. 111.4074° W. Information: 435.946.8610 http://wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/bearlake.html family for five generations and is located on Hours: Available during berry season when the crop is Location: East side of Bear Lake. Drive to south end the Oregon Trail and adjoining National Forest good. (Late July until middle of August.) of lake and turn north on East Lakeshore Rd at the land. McGee Harris and his family converted it Pickleville Country Store Laketown intersection. Open: Noon until sold out into a working ranch resort so that others could Information: Tammy at 435.946.8863 Pickleville Country Store was once a tavern and GPS: 41.95688° N. 111.27543° W. survived 60 years to its present use as a local Information: Wildlife Resources, 435.946.8501 experience the adventures of ranching life. The 9,000-acre ranch can give you a workout and Clea’s Nifty Gifts general store. Location: 2123 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Lodging a vacation at the same time because you work Clea’s Nifty Gifts has been in business in Garden Hours: Sun-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri and Sat, 8 am-9 pm along with the cowboys in their daily activities. City since 1987. The store features locally made Open: May-Sept When you are helping out at Bar H Bar, you’re Information: 435.946.2644 Laketown Lodge hand-crafted items, souvenirs and raspberry doing it because it needs to be done, not because products. Stop by and find one-of-a-kind and This beautifully restored 1900s building was always known as the Rock Store in Laketown, you need something to do! Tasks vary with the handmade kitchen items, games, doll clothes Georgetown, Idaho seasons—calving, branding, doctoring, fixing and children and baby wear. and for many years served the community as Location: 55 West Logan Rd, Garden City its general store. It was saved from demolition fence, irrigating and putting up hay are all Hours: summer: daily, 10 am-6 pm; weekends in winter Heritage Sites in 2005 and underwent a complete renovation possibilities, or you can take a nature hike to from 10 am-5 pm to its present use as a first-class lodging facility. look for wildlife. Horses are available for every Open: summer: May 15-Labor Day; winter: after Labor Georgetown Relief Society Hall level of rider—no experience necessary. Day-Oct 15 The lodge now has eight bedrooms and seven Location: 13895 Nounan Rd. The ranch is located Information: 435.946.8538 This small pioneer building is over 125 years old bathrooms, a full kitchen with professional between Montpelier and Soda Springs, 8 miles south and in its early days functioned as a school, local appliances and seating for 35 in the dining of Soda Springs. Coming from Montpelier, take Nounan chapel and meeting hall. room. Perfect for your family reunion, retreat or Rd from Hwy 30, between Bennington and Georgetown. Garden City General Store Location: 161 Third NW St, Georgetown Nounan Rd eventually becomes 8 Mile Rd as you get The main part of this building was built in the Hours: Daily convention. Location: 11 North Main St, Laketown closer to Soda Springs.

late 1800s, and throughout the years additions Open: By reservation only GPS: 42.87605° N. 111.55284° W. have been added. Buy locally made products Information: 800.743.9505; www.barhdarhbar.com Information: 801.755.3322; www.laketownlodge.com while grabbing those forgotten groceries. Laketown, Utah Location: 116 South Bear Lake Blvd, Garden City Montpelier Ranger District Hours: Mon-Sun, 8 am-9 pm, May 1 thru Oct 31 Experiences Shopping Information: 435.946.2877 The District manages the activities of the Caribou- Targhee National Forest. Books, maps, travel and Bear Lake Livery & Chuck Wagon Dee’s Super Service and General Store This unique building was modeled after the recreation information is available. Lakeview Market Enjoy a scenic ride on a wagon, eat delicious Location: Located in the Oregon-California Trail Center first Little America in Wyoming some 60 years You can find local raspberry products here, fresh catered Dutch oven dinners with live music at 322 North 4th St, Montpelier ago. The store was once a garage and eventually Hours: 8 am-4:30 pm, Mon-Fri produce, kitchen and hardware supplies along and cowboy poetry—all set in the mountains with traveler’s supplies at this full-service market. converted to a gas station, service station and Information: 208.847.0375; Location: 485 North Bear Lake Rd, 1 mile north of the surrounding Bear Lake. Reservations required. Location: 71 E Center, Laketown grocery store. Towing and complete car service www.fs.fed.us/r4/caribou-targhee main intersection in Garden City Hours: Call Mike and set up an appointment GPS: 41.95762° N. 111.39931° W. is available. Information: 435.946.8623 Location: 431 North Main in Laketown; at the corner of Hours: Market: Sun-Thurs, 7 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat, 7 am-10 US Hwy 89 and Laketown turn-off pm; market closes at 6 pm in winter Open: 7 am-9 pm daily in summer; closes earlier in winter Open: Year-round Information: 435.946.3372 Information: 435.946.3454

58 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 59 National Register of Historic Places and located at specialty is fresh-cut home-fried potatoes. the intersection of Washington Avenue and 6th St. Location: 733 Washington, Montpelier, Idaho Location: Downtown Montpelier, Idaho Hours: summer, 11 am-9 pm; closes one hour earlier in winter Information: 208.847.0067 Information: 208.847.1963

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Aho’s Espresso Deli Daryl Woolstenhulme Saddles Aho’s tiny Espresso Deli is locally owned and Maker of working saddles, also does leather operated by Carla Aho. This popular gathering work and repair. Location: 123 North 10th St, Montpelier, Idaho place cheerfully serves up delicious homemade Open: By appointment foods and friendly conversation. Sandwiches Information: 208-847-2330 General Stores made to order use fresh breads baked by the local General stores have been senior center. Top that off with Utah roasted deli the lifeblood of remote Jensen’s Market coffees, local produce, dairy products and fresh communities in Rich Local Mom and Pop grocery store, owners Mike and Bear Lake counties pastries. Aho’s strives to remain true to its quality Jensen and his dad Reed bought the place in throughout the years. Some service and foods, local clientele and products. 1972 and ran the grocery store together. Today, 60 years old and older, the The historic building is decorated with 1960s Mike features a custom butcher counter, grocery, many general stores that memorabilia. It’s a special place to come and sit deli, wines and produce. The building was built are still in business once for awhile, take a trip down memory lane and in 1954 and has always been used as a grocery supplied local farmers and get to know your neighbors. Inquire about Aho’s or general store. Tucked away on a side street, ranchers with tools and catering for family reunions, birthday parties or Jensen’s market is well kept with a pleasant and equipment they needed to local tours. friendly atmosphere and quality products. run their businesses, and You’re sure to find a treasure at he Jailhouse store in St. Charles. — Lisa Duskin-Goede Location: 835 Washington St, Montpelier, Idaho Location: 120 N. 8th St, Montpelier, Idaho provided the essentials for Hours: 8 am-4 pm Mon-Fri, and Sat 8 am-2 pm Hours: 8 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat families spread throughout Information: 208.604.0050 Information: 208.847.0087 The National Oregon- Highways 89 & 30, Montpelier the region. The general store Hours: 9 am-5 pm, Sun-Thurs; 9 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, California Trail Center was true to its name, carrying May-Labor Day. Oct 1-Apr 30 by reservation only Butch Cassidy’s Restaurant and Saloon Split Diamond Bar Ranch History comes to life in everything from flour and Information: 208.847.3800 or 866.847.3800; A local gathering place with down-home Cow-bred horses raised, trained and sold. Owner local produce to irrigation this museum where you www.oregontrailcenter.org cooking. Buffalo burgers, huckleberry shakes Marsha Transtrum grew up in a ranching family in boots and sewing supplies. can interact with costumed and desserts, cocktails and more are available Star Valley, Wyoming, and has been raising and Some general store buildings guides who depict some of Rails and Trails Museum from this old west style restaurant and saloon. training cutting horses for two decades. Call for were once repair garages the thousands who traversed Location: 322 North 4th St (downstairs in the Trail or taverns or eating places. Center), Montpelier, Idaho There’s also a gift and tobacco shop. an appointment to see her horses. the 2,000 miles of the Oregon/ Location: 230 North 4th, at the junction of US Hwy 89 Location: 29205 US Hwy 30, Montpelier, Idaho (8 miles Now catering to travelers Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day California Trails. View a and Hwy 30 North, Montpelier, Idaho north of Montpelier in Bennington) as well as locals, the stores Hours: Restaurant, 6 am-10 pm seven days a week. 20-minute historical video and Hours: By appointment carry beach and camping Heritage Sites Saloon, 10 am-1 am or 2 am weekends Information: 208.847.3810 supplies, grocery essentials, ride in a bumping covered Information: 208.847.3501; wagon simulator. Visit Peg [email protected] souvenirs and locally made Montpelier Historic Old Town Walton’s Feed, Inc. food products. In Idaho, Leg Smith’s Gift Shop. Call Visit Old Town Montpelier and take photos of The historic buildings of the wheat plant, which some general stores provide for events scheduled at the Dan’s Drive-In the bears, where signs in front of the buildings make this site an interesting stop, are a grain a chance to purchase lottery Allinger Community Theatre, For the last 50 years people have enjoyed fast describe the history of the area. Look for the Bank elevator and a mill that were built in 1952. Soon tickets. The sales from and experience the Scenic food at this location. It was an Arctic Circle of Montpelier that was robbed by Butch Cassidy after their completion, Art Walton bought the lottery tickets and alcohol Trails Encampment. for many years, and now Dan’s Drive-In has provide a strong economic Location: 320 North 4th, corner of in 1896. Cassidy and his pals got away with over plant and founded Walton’s Feed. Farmers been in business for more than a decade. Their base for local school districts. $16,000. The Montpelier Historic District is on the Stop by any of Bear Lake Country’s general stores for a real homegrown experience.

60 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 61 bring their wheat and barley crop to Walton’s, is described in the National Historic Register as Shopping who buy it and produce rolled grain for feed late nineteenth and twentieth century revival. Location: 7 East Center St in Paris products. Barley is rolled and mixed with Beehive Bears Custom Carving molasses for calf feed, and other feeds are Master carver Kirk Topham has always been produced for horses and colts. In Walton’s store Bear Lake Market Antiques an artist in one media or another, but in recent This historic building was built in 1898 and you can browse for saddles, ropes, gloves, boots years his interest in wildlife and carving led housed Sheppard’s Mercantile where clothing, and work clothes, and learn about the supplies him to create the now famous chainsaw bears. fabrics and other essentials were sold. The current needed to run a ranch or farm. Walton’s also Kirk’s whimsical carvings of the bears and other owners run a Pizza and Deli in the back, and the sells food storage products. wildlife can be seen all around the region and Location: 135 North 10th St, Montpelier, Idaho main store carries antiques of every kind. Walk in his showroom in Paris. If you see something Hours: 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri. Open until noon during fall through the beautiful building with hardwood harvest season. you’d like created, Kirk will create it for you. Information: 208.847.0465 or 800.847.0465; floors and enjoy learning about the past through Location: 757 North Main, Paris http://waltonfeed.com the antiques. Hours: 11 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat Location: 5 North Main, Paris Open: Year-round Hours: 10:30 am-6 pm; closed Sun and Mon Information: 208.241.7074; www.beehivebears.com Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day Paris, Idaho Information: 208.945.1079 Mountain High Furnishings Experiences Dennis Bingham was an upholsterer and Paris Tabernacle restorer of old cars before he began crafting This Romanesque-style Mormon tabernacle beautiful handmade rustic furniture. He uses Paris Historical Museum was constructed in 1889 of red sandstone from pine gathered from local forests and shed antlers Artifacts and photos from local history. a quarry 18 miles away. This place of worship is Location: 34 South Main, Paris to make unique leather and pine chairs, love listed on the National Register of Historic Places Hours: Mon-Fri 10 am-4 pm or by appointment seats, tables and other original pieces. Stop by Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day and is still used by members of the Church of his shop in Paris and inquire about his work. Information: Elaine Webb: 208.945.2289 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The building or Carol Wilcox: 208.945.2081 There is always a work of art in progress. While is open to the public. A small museum houses traveling, see Dennis’s work in West Yellowstone heirlooms and art objects left by early settlers. Location: Main St, Paris and Ennis, Montana galleries. Pioneering Adventures Location: 11 West Center, Paris GPS: 42.22577° N. 111.4008° W. Pioneer-style living farm. Enjoy hay wagon and Open: Call for hours Hours: Mon-Sat, 10 am-5 pm, Memorial Day-Labor Day covered wagon rides, Dutch oven dinners, tipi Information: 208.945.1889 village, camping, reunions and special events, including hand cart treks with pioneer program. Restaurants Location: 220 West 2nd North, Paris Paris Springs Organic Self-Serve Farm Hours: By reservation only Paris Cafe Bill Magnetti’s farm is an Idaho State Organic Open: June-Labor Day Certified farm. Being organic means that no Information: Idaho, 208.945.3349; Utah, 435.713.4059 Located across the street from the historic Paris Tabernacle, this restaurant is a great place to visit chemicals have been used to control pests or weeds. Bill hand weeds between plants and Heritage Sites if you enjoy cattlemen’s stories and good cooking. Paris has a unique staff consisting mostly of high uses mulch and mustard plant as groundcover. Stemming from childhood memories of his Italian Bear Lake County Courthouse school students who work all summer. The cafe closes the week that school starts. parents and grandparents cooking with garlic, The courthouse was designed by Truman O. Location: 48 South Main St, Paris he now enjoys specializing in growing different Angell, the architect who also designed the Salt Hours: 11 am-8 pm, Mon-Sat varieties of garlic. Bill is knowledgeable about Lake City Mormon Temple, Brigham Young’s Salt Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day how to grow and store garlic in this region. It has Information: 208.945.1267 Lake residence, and many other buildings in the acclimated to the Bear Lake area, and is planted region. Additions have been made and its style in September and harvested in summer. To judge The historic Paris Tabernacle is an early Mormon pioneer structure and the interior ceiling was built by a shipbuilder. — Lisa Duskin-Goede

62 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 63 garlic, Bill says you first go by the initial bite and Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lived here. The by Europeans in 1906. The US Forest Service Paris. About 30 years ago, the owners of Bear taste, and then the after-burn! Your imagination building now serves as a visitor information administers the cave. Lake Handicrafts moved the historic building is all it takes to use garlic in any home-cooked center. Tours of the cabin are available. Location: 10 miles up St. Charles Canyon in Idaho; to this site in St. Charles to help preserve its watch for a sign on Hwy 89 meal. Stop by the self-serve farm and take home a Location: Next to the post office at 75 South Main St, history and provide a home for the work of local Randolph GPS: 42.08778° N. 111.51925° W. bag of the fresh pungent bulbs. Open: May 30-Labor Day; call for hours Hours: 10 am-5:30 pm, June-Labor Day craftspeople. The jailhouse has also been the Location: Farm stand 220 South Main, Paris Information: 800.448.2327 Information: 435.245.4422 home of the Paris Post, a local newspaper, and GPS: 42.22186° N. 111.40122° W. Open: August and September later an abstract office. In its original use, it must Information: 435.901.9131 Shopping Heritage Sites have been a formidable structure with its stacked 2x6 construction, iron bars and cell walls. Today, Randolph, Utah Argyle Boot and Saddle Shop Gutzon Borglum Monument the owners of The Jailhouse would love to have Bret Argyle started working with leather, creating This monument honors the birthplace of Gutzon you come and browse the delightful antiques, the local handicrafts and decorations, and muse Experiences belts and repairing tack while in his youth. Today Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore. Location: Look for the monument near the center of about the happenings of the past. he has converted the garage in his home into a town in St. Charles Location: 101 North Beach Rd, St. Charles, around the Bear River Meadows boot and saddle shop. Stop in and order a pair of GPS: 42.11147° N. 111.38779° W. corner from the Bear Cave You’ll find Sandhill Crane, Long-billed Curlew, boots or buy the grandchildren a pair of chaps. Hours: Most weekends and holidays, noon-6 pm Custom-made saddles are an important part of Restaurants Open: May-Oct and American Bittern. Information: 801.544.5366; and cell: 801.721.2297 Location: 1.5 miles north of Randolph his work. Call ahead for an appointment. GPS: 41.69549° N. 111.10945° W. Location: 3320 N SR 16, Randolph (north of Randolph) Hours: By appointment Bear Cave Drive-In and General Store Information: 435.793.3182 The Bear Cave Drive-in is found at the St. Charles Little Creek Reservoir intersection dubbed Bear Cave Corner. It’s home Expect to see Double-crested Cormorant and Gator’s Drive-In of the Bear Cave Monster (2 quarter-pound top Dusky Flycatcher. For more birding, drive up Home of the best raspberry shakes in Randolph! sirloin beef patties with ham and cheese); and the either Old or New Canyon west of the reservoir. Location: 3 miles east of Randolph They also serve delicious home-cut fries and Bear Cave General store, catering to the beach and GPS: 41.67587° N. 111.2267° W. freshly made fast food. Gator’s also has the only camping set. Before heading over to Bear Lake’s lodging in Randolph (four cabins with plumbing), north shore, stop at the drive-in for lunch and Heritage Sites so make sure to call ahead if you plan on staying refreshments, and explore the store for beach and the evening. camping supplies. At the end of the season, on Location: 120 South Main St, Randolph Labor Day weekend, the store throws a big garage Randolph Historic Jail Hours: Mon-Wed, 11 am-8 pm; Thurs-Sat, 11 am-9 pm; sale. Stop by on your way through St. Charles and Raspberry Shakes This three-cell jail was built in 1880 of plank and Sun, noon-7. pick up some bargains on food and beach items The long lines at fast-food 5 tons of spikes. The site is operated by the local Information: 435.793.3170 and lots of other miscellaneous treasures. establishments don’t seem chapter of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Their Location: 554 North Main (US Hwy 89), St. Charles (Bear to deter many people, museum is a log cabin near the jail, and both Lake north shore) who come from all over sites are owned by the organization. St. Charles, Idaho GPS: 42.12314° N. 111.39039° W. just for famous Bear Lake Location: At the south end of 1st East in Randolph Hours: Drive-in: 11 am-8 pm, Mon-Thurs; open until 10 pm raspberry shakes and fast- Hours: By appointment Experiences Fri-Sat. Store: 8 am-8 pm, Mon-Sat. Both closed Sun. food hamburgers. There Information: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Captain: Open: Memorial Day-Labor Day are many homegrown fast- Information: 208.945.0927 435.793.3144 or other members: 435.793.3435 and food establishments in the 435.793.3485 Minnetonka Cave Bear Lake region. Try them Located in Wasatch-Cache National Forest, this Shopping all and decide for yourself Wilford Woodruff Home underground cave experience is one for the which one is your favorite! This two-room log cabin houses artifacts and entire family. Its natural stalagmites, stalactites, The Jailhouse information about early Mormon leaders. Wilford and banded travertine have been forming This jailhouse was built in about 1870 and was Woodruff, the third president of the Church of for thousands of years and were discovered originally Bear Lake County Jail, located in

64 Bear Lake Country www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Bear Lake Country 65 East Soda Springs Independence and Self-Sufficiency West One of the primary values PioneerMalad City Trails of people in this region Idaho is to be self-sufficient. In some cases this is a Utah religious value; in others it comes from many generations of living off the land and learning that one must be able to handle Abandoned homes dot the rolling hills of Chesterfield Townsite, a ghost town that is being resurrected by area residents and descendants of original settlers. any situation. Evidence — Julie Hollist of this can be seen in the popularity of home gardening and canning, stagecoaches that carried gold from Montana mines For a complete listing of historic properties came through the valley Pioneer County Travel Council freezing and drying food, to Salt Lake City. Legend has it that some of the registered in this area visit www.nationalregister- on their way to mines in particularly for long-term 430 E. Martin, Lava Hot Springs, Idaho 83246 robbers’ loot is still hidden in the Samaria Mountains ofhistoricplaces.com/ID/Onida/state.html. Walking/ Montana on what was known emergency food storage. 888.201.1063 behind an old iron door. driving tours of local historic buildings are avail- as the Gold Road. Home arts such as sewing, www.seidaho.org The first European-Americans to settle the able at tourist sites in Malad or call the Southeast quilting, crocheting, Malad Valley came in 1854 to raise horses and hay Idaho Visitor Center, 208.766.4788, during summer Experiences tatting and weaving are for the Ben Holliday Stage Lines. They left because of months or the City of Malad at 208.766.4010. common, chiefly among Southeast Idaho Visitor Center women though some men 208.766.4788 conflicts with the region’s Indians. Settlers returned Black Pines to the area in 1864 and established irrigation canals participate too. The idea Open seasonally Birds of the Black Pines in- is to make what you need in what is now Malad City. Most of the early Malad clude shrub-dependent/ob- yourself rather than buy settlers were Mormon converts from Wales and Malad Chamber of Commerce The town of Malad got its name when Donald ligate species (Sage Thrash- it. Many people either some of the minutes from early town meetings were 208.766.4010 McKenzie brought a party of trappers through er, Brewer’s Sparrow, Sage make their own tools or recorded in both English and Welsh. The western 59 Bannock St., Malad, Idaho, 83252 the area between 1818 and 1821. They drank the Grouse, Columbian Sharp- improvise solutions to part of the county is home to the Curlew National river water and got sick so the Frenchmen named tailed Grouse) and a wide va- problems, fixing things Grassland where the Dust Bowl drought left the land “with spit and baling Historic roads and trails crisscross Oneida the river the Malad, which means sick or ill. The riety of pinyon-juniper and severely eroded. Today the area is a model for land wire.” Adaptive re- County including part of the Oregon Trail and the town was settled in 1862 after the passage of the woodland/forest birds (Pin- reclamation. use—the art of finding Oneida Wagon Road, a toll road that ran from Malad Homestead Act. An important boost to Malad’s yon Jay, Black-throated Gray a new purpose for to Blackfoot, Idaho. The toll road was also known as economy was the stage lines and freighters that Warbler, Blue-gray Gnat- something old—is a type the Gold Road, and bandits repeatedly robbed the of folk recycling. Examples include quilting, salvage art and other activities.

66 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 67 Curlew National Grassland safe and pressed-tin ceiling are still intact. The Curlew National Grassland is the only The museum had its origins in a collection of national grassland in the Intermountain West, mementos gathered by Miss Hattie Morgan and and was established in 1960 to improve soil and the Native Daughters of the Idaho Pioneers group vegetation and to promote sound agricultural in the 1930s. The museum displays a variety of practices. The land was cultivated and farmed local artifacts including furniture, photos and in the early 1900s and you can still see evidence other materials from the old Evans Co-op. Location: 27 Bannock St. of many old homesteads in the area. The Hours: Tue-Sat 1 pm-5 pm Apr.-Sept., or by appt. homesteaders abandoned the area during the Information: Museum, 208.766.9247, or call City Hall Dust Bowl days of the 1920 and 1930s, leaving out of season 208.766.4010. Alternate numbers are the land badly eroded. The Grassland is 208.766.2770 and 208.766.2737 operated as a land reclamation demonstration project. The Sharp-tailed Grouse strutting Westside Ranger District ground on the western edge of the Grassland The Westside Ranger District manages the Domestic and draws birdwatchers and photographers from activities of the Caribou-Targhee National all over in March and June to see the incredible Forest, the Curlew National Grassland and the Community “dance” the male grouse perform to attract BLM lands in the region. Location: 75 S. 140 E. Landscapes mates. Camping is available. Hours: Mon, Tues and Thurs 8 am-4:30 pm People shape the landscape Location: Western Oneida County, 25 miles southwest of Malad. Information: 208.766.4743; to meet their practical or www.fs.fed.us/r4/caribou-targhee aesthetic needs in hundreds of GPS: 42.08367° N 112.65694° W Information: 208.766.4743; ways. Watch for examples of www.fs.fed.us/r4/caribou-targhee diverse and interesting ways This mailbox art near Malad is a great example of folk art found in the Bear River Heritage Area. Heritage Sites people have shaped the Bear — Sarah Barsness River regional landscape: Daniels Reservoir Evans Co-op Building and True Value Songbirds, upland birds, marsh birds, water • Yard art and interesting catcher, Red-breasted Nut- using local highways and side roads, including the Hardware fowl. Visit this site spring and summer. mailbox supports, including hatch, Red-naped Sapsucker, Park Valley/Strevell road at the south end of the This block housed the first department store in placing old farm equipment, Location: 15 miles west of Malad Virginia Warbler, Ash-throat- range. The best canyon affording reasonably safe GPS: 42.34896° N 112.43743° W Idaho, the Evans Co-op, which was part of the wheels, covered wagons and Mormon cooperative movement of the 1860s, sheep camps that show pride ed Flycatcher, Long-eared access for vehicles with good clearance is 6-Mile in one’s heritage Owl, Northern Goshawk, Canyon; the small 6-Mile Reservoir occasionally Malad Welsh Heritage Festival where local production and purchasing was • Architecture, including Ruffed Grouse, Blue Grouse). hosts a variety of water birds. Some dirt roads Malad has the largest per capita concentration encouraged through cooperatives. The block, old stone houses, interesting Scott’s Oriole has been noted should not be attempted in wet weather or early of persons of Welsh ancestry outside Wales including both the co-op building and the old barns and outbuildings in the region. spring. Unfortunately, much of the Black Pine itself and celebrates its heritage with the J.N. Ireland Bank, is on the National Register. • Town layout, particularly the The Black Pines are range burned in a recent catastrophic wildfire annual Welsh Heritage Festival each June. The The co-op is now a True Value Hardware Store presence of a town square in situated at the east side/ and the extent of long-term destruction to bird festival features music, poetry, storytelling, and carries house wares, appliances, sporting most Mormon-settled towns southeast edge of the Raft habitat is unknown. history, folk arts and crafts and games of goods and hardware. • Cemeteries and Location: Black Pine Rd. 5 miles north of the Utah/Idaho Location: 25 N. Main St. River Valley. Welsh heritage. gravestones—the layout of border on 1-84, west Hours: Mon-Sat 9 am-6 pm I-84 runs north-south on the Information: Malad Valley Welsh Society, Jean Thomas, the cemeteries sometimes GPS: 42.13989° N 112.98376° W president 208.766.4417; www.maladidaho.org/welsh_ Information: 208.766.2284 reflects the layout of the east side of the Black Pines. days.htm town, and gravestones have Local access can be obtained poems, sayings and symbols in a variety of ways using the Oneida Pioneer Museum I-84 Juniper exit, or from the that provide windows into a This local museum is housed in a building that community’s values Raft River Valley (Malta) side was built in 1914 as a drugstore. The original • Whitewashed letters on hillsides, usually standing for the local high school’s name • Historic trails

68 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 69 Oneida County Courthouse Malad Drive-In This is an Art Deco brick veneer building built In business since 1955, the Malad Drive-In in 1939 as part of a WPA project. It has an features scones and fresh strawberry shakes in elaborate terracotta entry. addition to the usual drive-in fare of burgers Location: 10 Court St. and fries. In old-style fashion, they still come to your car to take your order. Lodging Location: 12 W. 100 N. Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm Open: Closes for a month in Jan. Chantilly’s Bed and Breakfast Information: 208.766.4316 Find the comfort of a bed and breakfast atmosphere housed in this historic home, built Tillie’s around the turn of the century. Call proprietor Wonderful Mexican food made by Tillie herself for season information. Information: 208.766.4961 and served in a cozy and friendly environment. Homemade tortillas and chips. Location: 331 S. Main St. Restaurants Hours: 10:30 am-2:30 pm and 5:30 pm-8:30 pm Open: Mon-Thur Dude Ranch Cafe Information: 208.766.2277 This local gathering spot features home-style cooking, including homemade soups, bread Shopping and pies. Location: 65 N. Main St. Cindy’s Scrapbooking Hours: Tues-Thurs 8:30 am-8 pm; Cindy’s Scrapbooking offers supplies, workshops Fri and Sat open until 9 pm Phosphate mining is an important industry in the Soda Springs area. Here, the slag, or impure excess, is poured off in a Open: Most of the year, except in the dead of winter and bi-annual scrapbooking conferences. Visit fiery spectacle. — Andrea Graham Information: 208.766.4327 the website for photos and information about classes and merchandise. in making reproduction tents that are authentic and slot machines. People would come from Location: 44 N. Main St. to various historic periods, including the early Holbrook with their teams of horses and stop Me and Lou’s Diner Hours: Mon-Thurs 11 am-5 pm, Fri and Sat 10 am-5 pm Home cooking with freshly made pies and Information: 208.766.2666; mountain man period of the West. at Milton’s place. His son, Khalil, built a shop Location: 5400 W. 321 N. www.cindysscrapbooking.com large enough for 2-ton trucks. Bryan now has scones. “Scones” in this part of the country Hours: Call for appointment are not the baked English scones that you find Information: 208.766.2960; www.redhawk-trading.com several manufacturing enterprises at this elsewhere. They are delicious light and airy Paula’s Fine Hand-Dipped Chocolates site, from agricultural implements to medical deep-fried bread, similar to a Mexican sopapilla. Get a local favorite treat for your special occasion Rex Lippold, Wildlife Artist equipment. For the home or ranch, he makes Drizzle some honey into the air pockets and or chocolate cravings. Paula learned the art Rex creates custom artwork with a wildlife custom iron art mailbox stands, branding irons, enjoy. Try their chicken fried beef steak, prime of hand-dipped chocolates from her mother theme. His favorite medium is painting in oils gates, livestock stalls and bucking chutes. Art rib, fettuccini and shrimp dishes. Breakfast is and still makes them the way her mother did. but he also does leatherwork and woodcarving. designs for mailbox stands are cut freehand served all day. Custom orders only. He repairs art, frames and antiques. using a plasma torch. He can custom make a Location: 75 S. 300 E. Information: 208.766.2578; call for ordering information Location: 188 N. Main St. fancy arch entrance with your brand or logo. Hours: Mon-Fri 7 am-9 pm, Sat until 10, Sun until 8 Hours: By appointment Bryan says people prefer one-of-a-kind items Open: Year-round Information: 208.766.2918 Information: 208.766.2919 Red Hawk Trading and that’s why he continues to produce things This is the place to purchase locally made canvas by hand. tipis, tents and camp supplies. Red Hawk made Scott Service Location: 4701 W. Hwy 38 In 1927, Bryan Scott’s grandfather, Milton Scott, Hours: 8 am-5 pm the world’s largest tipi for the 2002 Winter Information: 208.766.2588 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They also specialize opened a small store with ice, groceries, coffee

70 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 71 that, the primary businesses developed around efforts, and it is still heavily populated with custom cowboy boots. Customers will Samaria the railroad terminal and Samaria remained members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- get personalized measurements and their a farming community. A number of historic day Saints. However, because it is in Idaho rather choice of a wide range of leathers, toe and Heritage Sites buildings are in the area and the district is on than Utah, certain cultural differences became heel styles, stitching, colors, inlay designs— the National Register of Historic Places. Location: Approximately 9 miles southwest of Malad. evident. For instance, parts of this region were anything you want! The Blue Goose Location: 2792 Kelly Toponce Rd. From US Hwy 30 The historic district is roughly bounded by Main and 3rd Clarence Hughes runs this charming 1892 seen as a refuge for people seeking to escape the a few miles west of Soda Springs, take Old Highway Street, 1st Ave. north and the south end of 2nd St. store, which was moved to the town park in Mormon Church’s influence, and some of the 30 through the town of Bancroft. Turn north on Kelly Samaria to keep it from being torn down. It’s a towns here had beginnings quite different from Toponce Rd. Lat/Long: 42.82208° N popular hangout for school kids and farmers in Weston those of typical Mormon settlements. 111.97233° W the afternoon. He sells local crafts, cookbooks, This region is also rich in mineral and geothermal Open: By appointment Cemeteries candy and sodas, and has video rentals. Historic Experiences activity, leading to such phenomena as phosphate Information: 208.648.0837 photos and newspaper clippings adorn the walls or e-mail bootsbygeorge@ The Bear River Heritage Area has mining and natural hot springs. Agriculture, dcdi.net; www. and make for fascinating browsing as well. Weston Reservoir including raising famous Idaho potatoes, remains cowboybootsbygeorge .com more than 100 cemeteries that Location: 4426 W. 4900 S. Visit this site spring and summer to see birds of provide a source of comfort when Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-5 pm an important part of the economy. remembering friends and loved Information: 208.766.5381 prey and waterfowl. Location: 13 miles east of Weston, in Weston Canyon. ones and insight into local culture. Look for North Deep Creek Rd. or State Hwy 36 heading Gravestones may provide much more Samaria Cemetery and a Local Legend east out of Malad. Bancroft than just name and dates of birth GPS: 42.12111° N 112.11915° W You can find a variety of old and new style and death. They may indicate ethnic headstones in this cemetery, including a Lodging backgrounds, birthplaces, religious headstone for a man’s amputated leg. In 1878, Pioneer Trails East affiliations, military honors and Ben Waldron lost his leg in a threshing accident. Kelly Toponce Guest Ranch cause of death. When you visit a cemetery, note The leg was buried on the east side of the Soda Springs Chamber of Commerce Michael and Eileen Chambers welcome cemetery and was given a headstone with a leg Soda Springs, Idaho visitors to their working ranch north of the stone mason’s artistry. Symbols carved on it, along with the initials “B.W.” and 888.399.0888 and decorations reflect religious and www.sodaspringsid.com Bancroft. With a small herd of cattle, lots cultural backgrounds. In the Heritage the date. Ben died in 1914 and was buried on of horses, and an outfitters license, they Area you will find engravings of the west side of the cemetery, far from his lost can provide pack trips, hunting trips, Latter-day Saint temples, Buddhist leg. It was said that after the leg was buried, Grace Chamber of Commerce www.graceidaho.com snowmobile excursions and fishing in their mandalas, Catholic crosses, a Ben had constant pain and said it was because own trout pond. Star of David and Native Indian his leg had been laid in the grave in a twisted Location: 705 Kelly Toponce Canyon Rd. From US Hwy motifs. Mottos and poems offer a position. The leg was exhumed and it had Caribou County is part of the Pioneer Trails 30 a few miles west of Soda Springs, take Old Highway look into the mind and philosophy indeed been laid in an unnatural position. The region of the Bear River Heritage Area, so named 30 through the town of Bancroft. Turn north on Kelly of the deceased. Pictures and Toponce Rd. engravings show favorite pastimes leg was straightened and reburied. Waldron because several old overland trails pass through Lat/Long: 42.85188° N 112.00128° W had no more trouble with pain and lived for and occupations. Some graves bear this region, the most notable being the Oregon/ Open: Year-round, call for reservations a small gold plaque indicating the several more decades. Information: 208.648.7347; e-mail [email protected] Location: 4700 West 5000 South (one-quarter mile west California Trail. person was a Utah Pioneer. Items of these coordinates) Caribou County is home to some famous of remembrance placed at graves landmarks that were important to nineteenth- Shopping should never be removed by anyone Samaria Historic District century emigrants such as Sheep Rock near except the owner. Many gravesites Samaria, about 9 miles southwest of Malad, was Cowboy Boots by George are unmarked and in remote areas, Soda Springs. Soda Springs was also the point reflecting the lives and culture of once the largest town in the Malad Valley. Settled at which the Hudspeth’s Cutoff portion of the Bootmaker George Millward learned his early Native Americans and pioneer in 1868 by homesteaders, the town did well until Oregon Trail took off to the west. This part of trade in Arizona, but in 1995 moved back to settlers. the railroad was routed through Malad. After Idaho was part of the early Mormons’ settlement his home ranch in Idaho, where he creates Listings of cemeteries can be found on the web. Search by county name, state and the word “cemetery.” You may also find contact info for the cemetery sextant.

72 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 73 a scheduled basis. The water shares were Chesterfield Grace usually sold with the land, though later, it became common for developers and others Experiences Experiences to try to buy up water shares from people who weren’t using them. An engineering Chesterfield Townsite Grace Fish Hatchery masterpiece for its time, the Last Chance In 1881-1882, Mormon settlers came to this Come watch newly hatched fish (fry and Canal was completed in the early 1900s to area north of Bancroft at the invitation of fingerlings), learn about fish reproduction divert water from the Bear River to Gentile their friend and relative Chester Call, who and stocking, and maybe try your luck Valley. had established a ranch nearby. Their hope in a nearby creek! This fish hatchery was Location: North of Grace, Idaho, a mile east of State was to build a thriving community, but built in 1946 and supplies fish stock to Hwy 34. A few miles north of Grace, turn east on Telford Road and go one mile to see a sign and two overlooks of in 1882, the Oregon Short Line Railroad southeast Idaho lakes, rivers, and streams. the canal was built through Bancroft instead of their The primary fish produced in the hatchery’s Lat/Long: 42.5911° N 111.73914° W community. While Chesterfield continued sixteen vats and raceways is Rainbow trout. to grow for several years, the agricultural Other species include Cutthroat trout, Lake Lodging depression of the 1920s and 1930s dealt the trout, and Splake. The hatchery grounds final blow to the town, and it became a ghost include a shaded picnic area and access Central Links and RV Park town. Now many of the buildings are being to fishing on Whiskey Creek, which gets This farm located in the Gem Valley in the restored, there is a museum, and guided stocked throughout the fishing season with Caribou Highlands of southeastern Idaho tours are available in the summer. Most of Rainbow trout. Visitors are welcome, and if was first cleared of its sagebrush in the 1880s. the buildings were built between 1884 and you call for an appointment, you can have a Bart and Cherie Christensen, who raise 1904, and the site is a National Historic guided tour, through there is almost always wheat, barley, and seed potatoes on the land, District. someone around to answer questions. Location: From the SH34/US30 Junction, go 15 miles Location: South of Grace. Take State Hwy 34 (SH34) 7 decided to create a couple of golf fairways west to Bancroft. At Bancroft turn north on Chesterfield miles south of town to mile marker 39.5, turn east onto for their five children to play on, and it grew Rd. and go 11 miles to the site Fish Hatchery Rd. Travel approximately 2 miles; turn right to nine holes of challenging golf weaving Lat/Long: 42.86404° N 111.90026° W to head down to the hatchery Lat/Long: 42.48737° N 111.7102° W in and around lava reefs. The course is now Hours: Daily 7 am-7 pm open to the public and has a clubhouse and Upper Portneuf River Information: 208.427.6364 pro shop. There is also a 10-site RV park. The Upper Portneuf River is a birding area that course is named after the old settlement of includes; songbirds, birds of prey, upland Heritage Sites Central that was nearby. birds, water fowl, as well as Sandhill Cranes, Location: North of Grace. Turn west at mile marker 48.5 (watch for the Golf! sign) on Hwy 34, go 5 miles. Sharp-tail Grouse and Sage Grouse. Local Last Chance Canal Lat/Long: 42.6088° N 111.78895° W habitat includes farmland and mixed forest. Without the extensive networks of irrigation Open: Open Apr. 1-Oct. 15, call for exact dates. Visit this site any season but winter. Information: 208.425.3233; e-mail: centrallinksgolf@ Location: Chesterfield Reservoir, approximately 12 miles canals created by settlers of this region, yahoo.com; www.centrallinksgolf.com northwest of Bancroft, from Old Hwy 30, follow the signs farming as it now exists would have been to Chesterfield Reservoir impossible in this arid area. Residents Lat/Long: 42.88719° N 111.95825° W Shopping created cooperatives to organize the use of the water, with families owning shares that London Drug Company gave them the right to irrigate their land on The Holbrook Mercantile is one of dozens of abandonded Established in 1950, this is the place to get homes and stores at the Chesterfield Townsite, northwest of Soda Springs. — Julie Hollist

74 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 75 frozen homemade pie dough so you can This Olde Stuff Antique Store because you work along with the cowboys in this site any season. Location: 4 miles north of Soda Springs on SH34. have perfect piecrusts, too. Quilts, clocks, Depression glass, books, and their daily activities. When you are helping Lat/Long: 42.69787° N 111.61211° W Location: 6 S. Main more. to do something at Bar H Bar, you’re doing Hours: Mon-Sat 9 am-6 pm Location: 12 S. Main St. Information: 208.425.3766 it because it needs to be done, not because Hours: Mon- Sat, 11 am-7 pm in the summer; 11 am- Pioneer Historic Museum dark in the winter you need something to do! Tasks vary with The Daughters of Utah Pioneers built Information: 208.425.3900; or, if you want to visit on a the seasons-calving, branding, doctoring, Marie Prescott Jenkins, Plein Aire Painter Sunday, call 208.425.3162 to make arrangements this museum in 1983. It features antiques, fixing fence, irrigating, putting up hay are all The direct and vital experience of painting photographs, and books, depicting local possibilities, or you can take a nature hike, outdoors is at the root of Marie Prescott history. Special tours outside the regular looking for wildlife. Visit us on the web! Jenkins’ work. Her landscapes cover many Henry Location: 13895 Nounan Rd. (8 miles south of Soda hours and days can be arranged by calling parts of the West, and often include wildlife Springs, take 8 Mile road off of Idaho US the numbers below. and human figures. Since winters are long Heritage Sites Highway 30. This becomes Nounan Rd. This is Location: Near 50 Center St. downtown Soda Springs. technically in Bear Lake County, between Montpelier and (Behind Sanders Furniture, 148 S. Main.) in Idaho, she also paints portraits and floral Soda Springs) Hours: Fri-Sat, 1 pm-4 pm, June 1-Oct. 1 still lives. Her work is in private collections Henry Store Lat/Long: 42.5639° N 111.50618° W Information: Call Sanders Furniture at 208.547.3706 and in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and it has been This old store in Henry, Idaho, was originally Open: Call for appointment ask for Linda; or call 208.547.3831 or 208.547.3770 shown in a variety of juried exhibitions built as a trading post for Indians, trappers, Information: 800.743.9505; www.barhbarranch.com in Idaho and Utah. She offers painting and later gold miners from Caribou Mountain. Monsanto Soda Springs Plant workshops upon request. Galleries featuring Also known as Chester Store by locals, after Blackfoot Reservoir Southeast Idaho has a long history of her work include Tara James Gallery in one of the owners. The original building was Birding area. Shore birds, marine birds, phosphate mining and processing, and the Pocatello and Relics Gallery in Salt Lake City. destroyed by fire, and the current building upland birds, marsh birds, water fowl, Sage most visible evidence of that industry is Location: 489 State Hwy 34 in Niter, south of Grace was constructed in 1913. Henry Store is no Grouse and many Sandhill Cranes in fall. Hours: Stop by the studio or call for appointment. Monsanto’s elemental phosphorous plant Information: 208.425.3660; e-mail: mprescottjenkins@ longer in business but remains as a heritage Habitat includes wetlands, shrubsteppe, just north of Soda Springs. allidaho.com; www.mprescottjenkins.com site. and farmland. Visit this site any season but Established in 1952, the Why Is It Called Location: 20 miles north of Soda Springs, on State winter. Highway 34. Location: 17 miles north of Soda Springs on SH34 plant runs three furnaces Soda Springs? Neva Harrison, Wildlife Artist Lat/Long: 42.90722° N 111.52931° W Lat/Long: 42.83172° N 111.55324° W that turn phosphate ore into The region around Soda You can visit Ms. Harrison’s studio to see elemental phosphorous, Springs, Idaho, is a very active geothermal area. her original paintings, or you can find Soda Springs China Hat which is used in herbicides, Early trapper and pioneer prints of her work in several businesses in Geological site. Ancient volcanic flows hydraulic fluids, and food diaries are replete with Soda Springs. Experiences and rhyolite domes. This site also features products. Waste slag from descriptions of the strange Location: 1452 Wide Hollow Rd. the furnace is poured geology in the area. The Hours: By appointment farmland and sagebrush steppe. Best during rocks for miles around Information: 208.425.3463; www.widehollowimages.com in molten red streams Alexander Reservoir spring and fall. This is a stop along the were described as being Marine birds, marsh birds, waterfowl, Pioneer Historic National Scenic Byway. onto the slag heaps to of the “soda formation,” Potatoes Sandhill Cranes, and Trumpeter Swans in www.pioneerhistoricbyway.org the west of the plant; this which consisted of Beginning in September, local potato farmers winter. Visit this site any season. Location: 10 miles north of Soda Springs on SH34 spectacular sight can be mounds of rock created by Location: 2 miles west of Soda Springs, on US30/SH34 Lat/Long: 42.78658° N 111.57491° W seen from Hooper Spring mineralized water. Warm sell their newly harvested potatoes in 50 Lat/Long: 42.65617° N 111.66618° W and cold springs abound pound bags. Watch for opportunities to buy Park, (Heritage Site) just Hilda Thompson Wetlands Project in the area, and early on, it real Idaho spuds, often found along State outside of town. Tours was discovered that some Bar H Bar Ranch Songbirds, birds of prey, shore birds, marine Hwy 34, near Grace, or along US Hwy 91 in of the plant are given by of the water was naturally This 9000-acre working ranch can give you birds, upland birds, marsh birds, water fowl, Preston. special arrangement. carbonated. Hence the Location: Various, along SH34 or US91 near Grace and a workout and a vacation at the same time, Sandhill Cranes and Trumpeter Swans. Visit Location: Plant : 1853 US State name Soda Springs. Preston, Idaho Formation Springs and Cave, and Hooper Spring, are two of the geothermal sites in the area.

76 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 77 Hwy 34 N. Hooper Spring Park: One mile north of Heritage Sites and the river later known as Lower Town. entrance and 200 feet long. The ponds attract Soda Springs, on 3rd E. (Government Dam Road.) Also accessed from North Hooper Ave. (Hwy 34) via Hooper After grain crops froze for several years in a numerous wintering waterfowl and support Rd. Brigham Young Cabin Site row, a majority of the people left. a healthy trout population. Watch for mule Lat/Long: 42.68532° N 111.59625° W A summer cabin was built in 1870 for Latter- Location: Off of US30 / SH34 in Soda Springs, turn deer, raptors, and numerous songbirds. This Open: By appointment south on 3rd W. Proceed 1/2 block and turn right into the Information: 208.547.4300; e-mail: [email protected] day Saint (Mormon) Church President first parking lot entrance of the Mormon Church. Proceed site is a stop on the Pioneer Historic National Brigham Young. The cabin was used for to the northwest corner of the parking lot, where you will Scenic Byway. find interpretive signs about Camp Connor. Location: Two miles north of Soda Springs, on SH34, Pioneer Historic Byway many years as a stopping place for Young then one mile east on the Trail Canyon Road. On the left On this route, travelers can retrace some and other church leaders as they traveled with a buck and pole fence at the entrance. through the area doing church business. The Fairview Cemetery Lat/Long: 42.69338° N 111.54101° W steps of Idaho’s pioneers and follow the path This old cemetery is home to several taken by early-day Yellowstone Park visitors. home was destroyed in 1944 in an attempt interesting graves. The Wagon Box Grave Hooper Spring Park From Franklin, Idaho’s oldest settlement, it to move it. Location: A marker flanked by logs from the cabin is the 1861 burial site of an Oregon Trail Free, clear sparkling soda water still is follows US Hwy 91 north to Preston, then stands in front of the Brigham Young Lodge and emigrant family of seven killed by Indians Idaho State Hwy 34 north through Thatcher indicates the site where the cabin once stood on the available in a beautiful Soda Springs city south side of US30/SH34 between 1st and 2nd Streets in and buried together in the wagon box from and Grace to US Hwy 30. It then goes east park located 2 miles north from the center of Soda Springs. their covered wagon. You can also find a town. A prime attraction for more than 160 to Soda Springs, where it meets the Oregon Morrisite headstone. The Morrisites were Trail-Bear Lake Scenic Byway; and from years, soda water from these springs was Camp Connor Site followers of Joseph Morris who broke from known nationally after rail service reached there it heads north on Idaho State Hwy 34 to General Patrick Edward Connor, with the Mormon Church. After Morris’ death the Wyoming border at Freedom. This route this resort area in 1882. W.H. Hooper, Salt California and Nevada volunteers, was at the hands of a Utah posse in 1863, some Lake City’s leading banker and president offers the shortest distance and time between ordered by President Lincoln to protect the Morrisites came to this area and founded Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park. of Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Location: Begins at the Utah-Idaho state line in Franklin, overland travel routes in the West. (This a community called Morristown, most of had his summer home here. He did much Idaho is the same Connor who led his troops to which is now under Alexander Reservoir to found and promote Soda Springs and its Information: Soda Springs Chamber of Commerce: slaughter upwards of 300 Shoshone Indians (look for foundations when the water is low). soda water industry while serving as Utah’s 888.399.0888; www.pioneerhistoricbyway.org at the Bear River Massacre in January, 1863. Also, Cariboo Jack of Caribou Mountain gold delegate to Congress. This site is a stop on Please see the Cache Valley, Idaho, section of mining fame is buried here. the Pioneer Historic Scenic Byway. Soda Springs Ranger District Location: On the west side of the Soda Springs Captive Location: One mile north of Soda Springs, on 3rd E. this Guide for information on the massacre Geyser in the center of Soda Springs, on 1st W. St. In Caribou County, manages the activities of site). He established what came to be known Lat/Long: 42.67863° N. 111.60458°W. the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Books, as Camp Connor, one of the first military Formation Springs and Cave maps, travel and recreation information posts in Idaho Territory, which covered 1 Hudspeth Cutoff This preserve established by the Nature available. square mile along the north bank of the This is a branch of the Oregon Trail. On July Location: 410 N. Hooper Ave. (State Hwy 34) Conservancy protects crystal-clear pools Bear River. Approximately 300 soldiers 19, 1849, Benoni M. Hudspeth, captain of a Hours: Mon-Thur, 8 am-4:30 pm and a unique wetland complex at the base Information: 208.547.4356; www.fs.fed.us/r4/caribou- were stationed here until the post was wagon train headed for California, and John of the scenic Aspen Mountains. The cold targhee abandoned in 1865. A group of 53 families, Myers, the wagon train’s guide, decided springs that feed the terraced pools and dissidents from the Mormon Church known to open a new wagon route to shorten creek system deposit high concentrations of as Morrisites, arrived in Soda Springs with the northern and more established route travertine (calcium carbonate), which gives General Connor and the infantry in May through Fort Hall. Instead of following the the site its unique geology. Perhaps the most 1863. The settlers started a community west main trail northwest, Hudspeth and Myers impressive physical feature is Formation of the military camp between Soda Creek led their party due west from Soda Springs. Cave, which is almost 10 feet tall at the This alternate route, 132 miles long, rejoined

78 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 79 the older California Trial route northeast of Geologically, it marks the northern end of workers and others between Soda Springs the house had other additions to make it the City of Rocks, some 30 miles south of the Wasatch Mountain Range. Sheep Rock and the town of Conda. Dinky Engine, a more livable. These later fell down and Burley, Idaho. was a prominent landmark for emigrants on miniature locomotive, played a major role were removed. After sitting empty for many At the junction of US Highway 30 and the Oregon Trail, and it is noted in numerous in the history of Caribou County by hauling years, the house was rescued and listed on State Highway 34, 6 miles west of Soda diaries from the period. From this point, supplies to the dam to build the Alexander the National Register of Historic Places. springs, turn north and travel about three branches of the Oregon-California Reservoir. Anna bought it in 2000, and spent five years Location: North side of US30/SH34, in the center of 100 yards. Turn right and follow the old Trail diverge. The main route of the Oregon town. restoring it to the comfortable and homey highway to the end of the asphalt. By taking Trail heads northwest to Chesterfield and Open: Year-round. suite it is today. The wood inside, covered a short walk toward the railroad tracks, Fort Hall. The Hudspeth Cutoff, the route by many layers of paint, was restored to its you will find where the Oregon/California preferred by those going to California, heads Lodging original luster; the rock coursing was patched Trail Association has placed white markers due west. The Bidwell-Bartleson Trail, which and stabilized and for the first time ever, the identifying the beginning of the Hudspeth was the route followed by the earliest group Enders Hotel little two room house got a bathroom and hot Cutoff. of emigrants in 1841, heads south down running water. On the outside of the house, Location: At the junction of US30 and SH34, 6 miles Now an inn featuring a dining room, this west of Soda Springs the Bear River to California. The Bidwell- 30-room Early Commercial style hotel was you can still see rags that were stuffed into Bartleson party encountered great difficulties built in 1917 and restored in 2001. Guests the cracks years ago for insulation. The Old on this route as they tried to cross the desert Rock House is open year=round and sleeps Oregon Trail Park & Marina will enjoy the authentic architecture and west of the Great Salt Lake, so this route was one or two persons. Call or check Anna’s Here you can picnic in a place traversed by decor throughout, as well as the Somewhere not used again. website for photographs showing the charm Oregon Trail travelers. The Oregon Trail, Location: Five miles west of Soda Springs, on the south in Time Antique Gift Shop and the Enders of the house, and for more information on marked by white carsonite markers, heads side of US30/SH34. Museum. Guests receive a daily breakfast at Lat/Long: 42.64601° N 111.71091° W reservations. up from Alexander Reservoir and crosses the Geyser View dining room, from where Location: 351E. Hooper Ave. the road that leads down into the park. you can get an excellent view of the Soda Open: Year around. Location: Just west of the Oregon Trail Golf Course and Heritage Sites Springs Captive Geyser. The building is on Information: 208.241.8884;www.theoldrockhouse.com Cedar View Supper Club, west of Soda Springs, off of the National Register of Historic Places. US30/SH34. Location: 76 S. Main Soda Springs City Hall Hours: Dining room, museum and gift shop open Sheep Creek Guest Ranch This building was built of local lava rock in Mon-Sat, 7 am-9 pm; Sun 7 am-8 pm Family owned and operated, Sheep Creek Presbyterian Church of Soda Springs 1902. It is listed on the National Register of Information: 208.547.4980 Guest Ranch is a licensed outfitting business This 1895 Gothic style church is built of local Historic Places. located in the Caribou National Forest on lava rock. Location: 9 W. 200 S. Location: The NE corner of City Park, at 109 S. 100 E. The Old Rock House 2,000 private mountain acres. Whether Hours: Tours are available by appointment This is a small house with a big story. The it is hunting, fishing, shooting sports, Information: 208.547.3771 Thomas Corrigan Park Old Rock House, built in 1896 from rocks snowmobiling, reunions, or just getting Corrigan Park is located in downtown Soda originally quarried for a railroad round away for the weekend, you’ve found a Sheep Rock Springs, Idaho, on the north side of US house, was saved from eventual destruction mountain paradise. The ranch has a main Five miles west of Soda Springs is a great Highway 30/State Highway 34. It is a pleasant by the loving care and hard work of its latest lodge, six cabins, a restroom facility, and stone bluff rising several hundred feet spot to stop and have lunch. While there, you owner, Anna Beauregard. The house was ample camping and RV parking areas. Sheep above the Bear River. This is the point at can visit the Galloping Goose and the Dinky built by William Hopkins. He and his wife Creek Guest Ranch prides itself on its ability which the Bear makes its sweeping left turn, Engine, two locomotives that have a part in lived in it until 1919, and then Iona Mikesell, to accommodate a variety of activities. around the base of Sheep Rock, and heads the history of the town. Between 1922 and Location: Lanes Creek Rd., off State Highway 34, NE of a woman who worked as a local midwife, Soda Springs back south toward the Great Salt Lake. 1936 the Galloping Goose provided the only lived here from 1919 to 1971. During the Information: 877.787.0301 means of transportation for phosphate mine time that Iona raised her 10 children here,

80 Pioneer Trails www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Pioneer Trails 81 Trail Creek Lodge port. The store sells gifts, cards, and historical The beef and lamb is sold as cuts, and as this site any season but winter. Location: 39 miles North of Soda Springs on SH34, in Trail Creek offers eleven rooms in a lodge, and books by local authors, along with the usual ¼, ½ or whole beef, ½ or whole lamb. You Wayan amenities like a hot tub, sauna, and satellite drugstore stock. will find the Laus at the gardener’s markets Information: 208.237.6615; www.fws.gov/refuges/ Location: 116 S. Main, next to the Soda Springs Captive profiles/index.cfm?id=14612 big screen TV. You can get breakfast service Geyser in Logan and Pocatello weekly from May or group meals, or you can prepare your own Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am-6 pm; Sat 9 am-1 pm through October. Their products are also meals. Outdoor recreation opportunities Information: 208.547.3585 available at the farm by appointment, and include cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, delivery is available to Idaho Falls, Pocatello, horseback riding, and fishing. Camping and John Tarbet, Woodcarver and Logan and Ogden year-round. RV hookups are also available. John Tarbet’s talent for woodcarving brings Location: 675 E. US Hwy 30 on the north side of the road Location: 3367 Trail Creek Rd. Off of US Hwy 34, NE of Information: 208.547.3180;www.laufamilyfarm.com Soda Springs him great pleasure. He especially enjoys Information: 208.547.3828; PO Box 693, Soda Springs, carving bears and cowboy caricatures, carving Nifty Needle Quilt Shop ID 83276; www.trailcreeklodging.com mostly in basswood and cottonwood. Other Catering to the quilter, the Nifty Needle items he makes include walking sticks and Quilt shop carries cotton fabrics for quilting Restaurants canes, relief carvings, Santa Claus figures, and sells locally made machine quilts. country dolls, and carved golf balls. Come Location: 128 S. Main Stockman’s Bar & Grill see him at The Knot Hole in Soda Springs. Hours: Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm Location: 160 E. Hooper Ave. Information: 208.547.2441 The Grill offers traditional western food and Hours: By appointment lots of it. Information: 208.547.4455 Location: 96 S. Main Thompson Custom Guns Hours: Mon-Sat 9 am-1 am; Sun 9 am-9 pm Shane Thompson has been working at the Information: 208.547.9955 Lau Family Farms trade of gunsmithing for many years. The Lau Family Farms have been direct marketing work requires precision and an eye for The Geyser View Dining Room grass-fed beef and lamb since July of 2004. detail. Among other things, he provides Located in the historic Enders building, the John Lau is the fifth generation to live here, custom metalsmithing, custom stocks, and Geyser View Dining Room is open seven and his ancestors were one of four families precision machine inletting of gunstocks. He days a week. Enjoy the view of the Soda sent by the Mormon Church to settle Soda gets orders from all over the world. Springs Captive Geyser while dining, and be Springs. The farm was established in 1882, Location: 1223 Bailey Creek Cr. Five miles south of Soda sure to take time to visit the Enders museum and has received the Idaho Century farm Springs, off of US HWY 30. Take 8 Mile Road/Bailey Creek Road. and antique gift shop, Somewhere in Time. designation. The Laus say “We love farming Hours: By appointment Guests of the hotel receive one free breakfast and ranching and are thrilled to be able Information: 208.547.0383 per day. to provide wholesome and tasty beef and Location: 76 S. Main Hours: Mon-Sat, 7 am-9 pm; Sun 7 am-8 pm lamb to so many families. We are moving Open: Year-round increasingly toward management intensive Wayan Information: 208.547.4980 grazing, which benefits both the land and Experience our animals. We try to utilize new methods Shopping of weed control, like biological control via Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge thistle-eating bugs, as well as some small Birding area. Song birds, birds of prey, marine Eastman Drug scale spot spraying of weeds in our grazing birds, marsh birds, water fowl, nesting This is the oldest drugstore in Idaho. Stop fields. We work hard to be the best stewards Sandhill Cranes and Trumpeter Swans. Visit in for an old=fashioned soft drink like iron of our land and animals that we can be.”

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Cisco Fishery The annual spawning run of the tiny Bonneville Community Cisco fish on Bear Lake takes place in mid- to late Celebrations EvJanuary, with as much eas a week variation n in the t s The yearly calendar is full starting date. These little fish, a type of whitefish, of events that allow people are found only in Bear Lake. Regional fishermen to gather and celebrate. flock to the lake and use nets to dip the fish out of Some of these are open the water, often through holes in the ice when the to the public, some are not. Agricultural festivals weather is cold enough, using them either for bait include Raspberry Days (the Bear Lake cutthroat and lake trout love them) (Garden City, Utah), Black or to fry and eat. and White Days (Richmond, Location: Bear Lake Little girls dance the traditional May Pole Dance as part of Mendon, Utah’s century-old May Day celebration. Dates: Mid- to late January — Julie Hollist Utah), Wheat and Beet Days Information: Bear Lake Utah Division of Wildlife, (Garland, Utah), Peach Days 435.946.8501; call after 4 pm for recorded message biologists and volunteers. Contact Utah Wildlife Location: 6 miles south of Logan, Utah on US Hwy 89-91 girls practice for hours to learn (Brigham City, Utah) and about Bear Lake Cisco fishing. more. Pioneer Day, July Resources for locations. Dates: Mid-April the songs and dances so they http://wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/bearlake.html Information: 800.225.FEST or 435.245.6050; 24, is a Utah state holiday Date: Usually early February can dance around the Maypole. Information: 801.538.4771; http://wildlife.utah.gov/calendar www.awhc.org that commemorates the day The entire community gets Soda Springs Winter Carnival Mormon pioneers entered involved by making costumes, the Salt Lake Valley. In Fishing derby, snow machine poker run, ice Bear Lake Chocolate and Craft Festival May setting up the poles in the town Idaho, where the date is sculptures, cross-country ski races. Fresh chocolates and vendors. Location: Soda Springs, Idaho Location: Garden City square, preparing meals and not an official holiday, it is Dates: Third Saturday in January Dates: President’s Day weekend Daily Adventures at the American West planning the program that often celebrated in small- Information: Soda Springs Chamber of Commerce, Information: Bear Lake Chamber of Commerce, Heritage Center takes place in the Mormon town churches. Ethnic 888.399.0888 or 208.547.4964; 800.448.2327; www.bearlake.org Location: 6 miles south of Logan, Utah events such as Cambodian on US Hwy 89-91 church on the square. www.sodachamber.com/annualevents.htm Location: Mendon, Utah town memorial services, Chinese Dates: Costumed interpreters celebrate the history and square heritage of the American West from Memorial to Labor New Year, Cinco de Date: First Saturday in May April Day. Call for special event and festival information. Mayo and Scandinavian February Information: 800.225.FEST or 435.245.6050; Midsommar all occur in Baby Animal Days www.awhc.org Smithfield Health Days Bear River communities. Bald Eagle Day Baby Animal Days is one of the most popular This annual festival was created All counties have rodeos, usually during the county This annual eagle-watching event is sponsored events at the American West Heritage Center. Live Mendon May Day in 1925 as an outgrowth of by the Division of Wildlife Resources. Bring baby animals to pet and learn about, crafts and President Theodore Roosevelt’s fair (August is a prime This event began in 1863 and features home-written month for county fairs). binoculars or use spotting scopes set up by demonstrations. call for better health in U.S. songs, poems and longstanding traditions. Young Many of these celebrations are marked by parades, pancake breakfasts, races and other activities.

84 Events www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Events 85 citizens. Today, the activities include a fun run, Memorial Day Decorating Good Ol’ Days Clarkston Pony Express Days parade, health fair and screening and more. Throughout this region, people flock to cemeteries Antique tractors and cars, quilt show, talent show This event celebrates the Pony Express route Location: Smithfield, Utah that crossed the mountain near Clarkston. Pony Date: Events throughout the first week in May; on Memorial Day weekend to decorate family and much more. graves with flowers. It is common to see groups Location: Caribou County Fairgrounds, Grace, Idaho Express horse race, animal races, lawnmower races, festival on Fri and Sat Date: Last Saturday in June Information: Smithfield City Recreation Center, of people laughing and talking in the cemeteries a parade and dinner (by reservation) on Saturday. Information: Grace Chamber of Commerce, Location: Clarkston, Utah 435.563.0048 as they encounter other friends and relatives. 208.221.7321; www.graceidaho.com Dates: Third Friday and Saturday in June Many people cut flowers like lilacs, peonies and Information: Clarkston City, 435.563.9090 Wooltrek Days at Notlwonk Springs iris from their yards and make bouquets to set by Black Gold Testicle Festival Spinning and weaving demonstrations, potluck the headstones of their loved ones. Drive or walk Home grown celebration from the ranching and Corinne, The Gentile City lunch, and fleece, roving and yarn sales, farm tour. through local cemeteries on Memorial Day to see team-branding community. Friends and family do A comedic pageant celebrating Corinne’s colorful Location: 4420 West 14300 North, Cornish, Utah the beautiful display. Many communities also the cooking. T-shirts available at the festival and history. Admission is free. Concessions and pre- Date: First weekend in May sponsor Memorial Day programs in the cemeteries. year-round. show at 8 pm; show starts at 9. Bring your own Information: Fred and Jo Knowlton, 435.258.5539; Location: Rodeo arena in Woodruff, Utah [email protected] The historic site (ghost town) of Chesterfield, Idaho, lawn chairs and blankets. has an annual “Decoration Day” event to open Date: Memorial Day weekend and the first weekend in June Location: City park, Corinne, Utah Information: Kalon Downing, 435.793.4356; Dates: Last Friday and Saturday of June their season. [email protected]; or Location: Cemeteries throughout the region Information: 435.744.2065; [email protected]. Golden Spike Celebration P.O. Box 177, Woodruff, Utah 84086 See reenactments of the driving of the golden Dates: Memorial Day weekend spike that completed the transcontinental railroad Brigham City Heritage Arts Festival on May 10, 1869. July Location: Golden Spike National Historic Site June The Brigham City Heritage Arts Festival provides Date: Each year on May 10 displays, performances, lectures and artists, all Independence Day Information: 435.471.2209, ext. 29; www.nps.gov/gosp Futurity and Derby Bull Event related to the festival theme, which varies every Various towns throughout the region hold This event focuses on bull riding, a rodeo event year. festivities on July 4. Some towns alternate years Richmond Black and White Days that requires a great deal of courage from the Location: Brigham City, Utah celebrating either July 4 or Pioneer Day on July 24. This festival began in 1913 to promote and cowboys who participate. Riders from Idaho and Date: Second Saturday in June Montpelier, Idaho, holds a Lions Club Chuckwagon Information: Brigham City, 435.734.6615; http:// Breakfast on the 4th and sponsors a fireworks stimulate an interest in better quality dairy cattle. surrounding states come to compete in this action- brighamcity.utah.gov It has evolved from driving the cattle into the old packed event. Local people bring in locally raised display on “M” hill after sunset. Woodruff, Utah, tithing yard with judges riding horses through the bulls. has a rodeo and patriotic programs. Star Spangled Location: Oneida County Fairgrounds, Malad, Idaho Nibley Heritage Days herd to pick out the award-winning animals to Week in Hyrum, Utah, includes a rodeo, patriotic Dates: Call early May. This event starts the Monday after Father’s Day program, parade, dance, fireworks, Dutch oven its present status as one of the largest exclusively Information: Diane at Fair Board, in recorder’s office, and ends the following Saturday. Events include contest, booths, exhibits and entertainment. Logan, Holstein dairy shows in the United States. It has its court house – 208.766.4116, ext. 101, or Travis – a parade, baby contest, fair, basketball tourney, 208.766.3318 Utah, has one of the largest fireworks shows in the own permanent grounds and pavilion and draws children’s play, and a mayor’s dinner for the older United States because Fireworks West (fireworks exhibitors from throughout the Intermountain folks of the community. production company) is located there. Paris, Idaho, West. It also includes a parade, food, horse pull Classy Country Classics Car Show Location: Nibley, Utah features a chuck wagon breakfast, pageant at the Dates: Week after Father’s Day and other public events. Hot rods, customs, classics and restored automo- tabernacle, youth rodeo and a parade. Malad, Location: Richmond, Utah biles from miles around. Local merchants give Information: City of Nibley, 435.752.0431 Dates: Second week in May (ends on the third Saturday Idaho, celebrates with cow pie bingo and a bed of the month) sponsor’s choice awards for their favorite cars. race. Most celebrations feature breakfasts. Check Games, prizes and craft booths make this a fun Idaho Days local calendars because some activities occur on activity for the whole family. A celebration honoring the state’s pioneers. the 4th itself, while others are on days preceding Old Ephraim Mountain Man Rendezvous Location: Malad, Idaho Location: Franklin, Idaho Held near a nineteenth-century trappers’ rendezvous Date: May or June Dates: Last weekend in June and following. Some of the communities with July Information: Town of Franklin, Idaho, 208.646.2300 4th festivities include: Utah: Deweyville, Elwood, site. The event re-creates the food, trader’s show and Information: Malad Chamber of Commerce, Grouse Creek, Plymouth, Willard, Brigham City, contests of the early 1800s rendezvous. 208.766.2737 or 208.541.2770; www.maladidaho.org Location: Blacksmith Fork Canyon east of Hyrum, Utah Perry, Logan and Woodruff. Idaho: Paris, Lewiston, Dates: Memorial Day Weekend Montpelier, Malad and Soda Springs.

86 Events www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Events 87 Cache Valley Cruise-In Tremonton Days Nearly a thousand classic cars cruise into Logan, Vendor booths, ball games, entertainment, food, Utah, for a four-day celebration with games, fireworks and family activities. vendors, cars on display and parade. Location: Jeannie Stevens Park, 670 North 1000 West, Location: Cache County Fairgrounds, Logan Tremonton Dates: First Sat in July and preceding Thurs and Fri Date: Weekend nearest the 24th of July Information: www.cachevalleycruisein.com Information: Tremonton City, 435.257.2625

Butch Cassidy Days That Famous Preston Night Rodeo Did you know Butch Cassidy robbed the bank Held on three nights in July, this is a PRCA event of Montpelier on Aug 13, 1896, at 3:13 pm. Bank featuring nationally known cowboys and rodeo robbery reenactment and festivities. stock. It was started in 1935 by a group of Preston Dates: Two-day celebration, usually the closest businessmen. Many families return during this weekend to the July 24 event’s weekend to have reunions and renew Location: Montpelier, Idaho Information: Chamber of Commerce, 208.847.0067 friendships. There is a carnival and parade each night in downtown Preston. Location: Preston, Idaho Samaria Days Dates: Last weekend in July This event celebrates Samaria, Idaho’s history and Information: 208.852.2703; www.prestonidaho.org Feeding the apple press at one of the many festivals held at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville, Utah. Welsh heritage. Features parade, music, dances, — Mike Bullock baseball, carnival and contests. Candidates for Garland Wheat and Beet Days queen compete in activities based on the daily Celebrating over 100 years of agricultural Annual Railroaders’ Festival Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew work of early homesteaders. traditions. Historically the railroad had yearly events for (Pageant) Location: Samaria, Idaho (about 8 miles southwest of Location: Garland, Utah Malad) Date: August railroad employees and their families. Celebrate This LDS Church-sponsored pageant recalls the Dates: Third weekend in July, near July 24 (subject to Information: Garland City; 435.257.3118 with the modern keepers of railroad history at life of Martin Harris, a key player in the early change) the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Activities history of Mormonism and the publication of Information: Four County Alliance of Southeastern include the world championship professional spike the Book of Mormon, who lived his later life in Idaho, 208.317.1827 August driving contest, handcar rides and races, games, Clarkston. Free admission, but tickets are required. food, music and ranger programs. The local church puts on a barbecue dinner prior County Fairs Location: Golden Spike National Historic Site, Pioneer Day to the pageant at a modest cost. Reservations are The 24th of July is a holiday commemorating the August is the usual month for county fairs. Come Promontory, Utah Date: Second Saturday in August necessary for the dinner. Write Clarkston Town day the Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley in see rodeos, produce displays, livestock judging, Information: 435.471.2209, ext. 29; Dinner, PO Box 181, Clarkston, UT 84305. 1847. It is a state holiday in Utah but is also celebrated 4-H exhibits, rides and more. Call each county’s www.nps.gov/gosp Location: Clarkston, Utah, in the amphitheater adjacent in Mormon communities in surrounding states. offices to verify dates. to the Clarkston cemetery Locations: Box Elder County, Utah—Tremonton, fourth Depending on the location, you may find parades, Dates: Two weeks in August. Begins at dusk every night. weekend in August. Includes a working dog show and Bear Lake Raspberry Days Closed Sun and Mon picnics, pageants, fireworks, old fashioned games cowboy poetry. Cache County, Utah—Logan, second Celebrate the harvest of delicious raspberries at Information: 435.563.0059 for ticket availability; or simply quiet family celebrations. Lots of locals week in August. Rich County, Utah—Randolph, third 435.245.3501 for pageant president; this annual festival featuring a wide variety of head for the canyons to have picnics in the cool week in August. Bear Lake County, Idaho—Montpelier, www.martinharrispageant.org activities, such as a pancake breakfast, craft fair, mountain air. Locations (Utah): Some communities fourth weekend in August. Caribou County, Idaho— Grace, first week of August. Features a children’s parade, dances, parade, concerts and fireworks. A rodeo is with celebrations include Corinne, Bear River City, Parimutuel Horse Races main parade. RCA Rodeo Fri. and Sat. night. Franklin held at the Laketown Arena. Grouse Creek, Tremonton, Logan, North Logan County, Idaho—Preston, third weekend in August. Location: Garden City, Utah One of the most exciting events in Southeastern and Park Valley. In Idaho, the town of Bancroft has Oneida County, Idaho—Malad, second week in August, Dates: The first full weekend of August (Thurs, Fri, Sat) Idaho. These races offer as much as a $20,000 purse. a large celebration. includes a rodeo and truck pull. Information: City Hall; 435.946.2901 Location: Horse racetrack, Malad, Idaho Date: July 24 or nearest weekend Dates: Call before June for info Information: Chambers of Commerce or tourism offices Information: Diane at Fair Board in recorder’s office, in different communities courthouse, 208.766.4116, ext. 101

88 Events www.bearriverheritage.com 1.800.882.4433 Events 89 River Heights Apple Days Brigham City) and includes a parade, carnival, fruit Christmas Craft Bazaar Festival of Lights This small town on the south edge of Logan, Utah, displays, entertainment, dancing, craft fair and a Locally made crafts, food, entertainment, prizes. The city of Preston, Idaho, goes all out for lighted celebrates its orcharding heritage with a celebration Dutch oven cook-off showcasing peaches. Grab a Location: Thirkill Elementary School, Soda Springs, Christmas decorations in its Festival of Lights, Idaho that includes games, food, and more. bowl of fresh peach cobbler and you’ll think you’re Dates: Second Sat in Nov beginning Thanksgiving weekend. Throughout Location: Heber Olsen Park, 400 South and 600 East, in heaven! Information: 208.547.547.4426 the region, homeowners take delight in decorating River Heights Location: Brigham City, Utah Date: Last Saturday in Aug or first or second Sat in Sept Dates: The weekend after Labor Day their houses and yards with lights and other Information: City offices, Mon-Fri, 10-2, 435.752.2646; Information: 435.723.3931; www.bcareachamber.com decorations, but Preston is especially well-known www.riverheightscity.org December for its flashy displays and the celebration that begins with a parade and fireworks. Hop in the Winter Market Paradise Trout and Berry Days October car and take a drive around the area to get into the Cache Valley Gardener’s Market vendors and Paradise is home to one of the largest commercial holiday spirit. artisans all gather for a holiday celebration and berry farms in the state, as well as a trout farm, so Hunting Location: Preston, Idaho Hunting season opens throughout the region sale. Dates: Thanksgiving weekend through Christmas this event celebrates trout and berries and features Location: Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan around this time. Locals turn out in huge numbers Information: Chamber of Commerce, 208.852.2703; a parade, pie-eating contest, basketball, 5k run, a Date: One Saturday in December www.prestonidaho.org trout dinner and raspberry delights. to spend some time in the outdoors and try their Information: Cache Valley Gardener’s Market, Location: Paradise, Utah luck at getting some meat for the winter. Check 435.245.5960; www.saabra.org Parade of Lights and Parade of Homes Dates: The weekend before Labor Day with Idaho and Utah Fish and Game departments People decorate anything they can drive, push or Information: 435.245.6737 for details on particular species or specialized Frontier Christmas at the American West pull and parade through the streets of Malad to end hunts (like the bow hunt), some of which occur Heritage Center with a bonfire, food and fireworks. For the Parade September other times of the year. Participate in a pioneer Christmas. Location: American West Heritage Center, 6 miles south of Homes, people decorate their houses and yards with holiday lights and decorations and invite the Wellsville Founders Day of Logan, Utah, on US Hwy 89-91 North Logan Pumpkin Walk Date: First week of December public to enjoy them. Commemorates the settling of the first white Fall comes alive in Cache Valley as pumpkins are Information: 800.225.FEST or 435.245.6050; Location: Malad, Idaho community in Cache Valley in 1856. Includes made into people, animals, cars, and much more! www.awhc.org Dates: Parade of Lights, every year in December. Parade a parade, barbecue, baseball tournament, 5K This popular fall activity features thousands of of Homes, even years Information: Four County Alliance of Southeastern and 10K races, patriotic musical program and a pumpkins set up in vignettes. Malad Firemen’s Ball Date: Third week in October for five days, not including Idaho, 208.317.1827 “buckaroo” rodeo for children. This Christmastime event honors and raises Location: Wellsville, Utah, town square Sunday. Dates: Labor Day weekend Location: North Logan City Park funds for local volunteer firemen. Most small Cache Community Celebrates Information: 435.245.3686 Information: 435.752.1310, North Logan City communities cannot afford to maintain full-time New Year’s Eve fire departments, so they are dependent upon Nondenominational, nonalcoholic family New volunteers to protect their homes and lives. People Malad Fall Festival Providence Sauerkraut Days Year’s Eve event. Family recreation, ice skating, come from all around to dance to live music, and Local crafters gather to sell their wares in time for This town’s German roots are reflected in this tubing, kids activities, Fiesta Para la Familia live celebration featuring a Friday night dinner of try to win the generous door prizes. the holidays. Location: American Legion Building, Malad, Idaho music and dancing. Location: Malad, Idaho Location: Downtown and various venues in Logan sauerkraut and all the trimmings. Date: Usually the last Saturday before Christmas, from 9 Dates: September Location: Spring Creek Middle School Date: New Year’s Eve pm-1 am. Information: Malad Chamber of Commerce, Date: Friday night; date may fluctuate Information: Logan Parks and Recreation, 435.716.9250; Information: Jerry Thomas at Jerry’s Market, 208.766.2737 or 208.541.2770; www.maladidaho.org Information: 435.752.9441; www.providencecity.com www.loganutah.org special events 208.766.4030 or Fire Chief Jeff Green at Quick Stop Convenience Store, 208.766.4732 or Four County November Alliance of Southeastern Idaho, 208.317.1827 Peach Days Established in 1904, this is one of the state’s oldest Cache Community Connections Cache harvest festivals. It celebrates the products of Valley Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service Utah’s famous Fruit Way (Highway 89 south of Location: Logan Tabernacle, 50 North Main St Date: Sunday prior to Thanksgiving at 7 pm

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