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Box Elder County is a county on the northwestern edge of Utah, United States. As of 2017, the population is 54,079. Its county seat and largest city is Brigham City. The county was named for the box elder trees that abound in the county. Box Elder County lies on the north end of the Great Salt Lake, covering a large area north to the Idaho border and west to the Nevada border. Included in this area are large tracts of barren desert, contrasted by high, forested mountains. The Wasatch Front lies along the south-eastern border, where the main cities are found. Box Elder County is part of the Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is al...
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  • 2. Antelope Island State Park Syracuse Utah
    Not to be confused with a different Antelope Island on the border of Arizona and Utah in Lake Powell.Antelope Island, with an area of 42 square miles , is the largest of 10 islands located within the Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States. The island lies in the southeastern portion of the lake, near Salt Lake City and Davis County, and becomes a peninsula when the lake is at extremely low levels. The first known non-natives to visit the island were John C. Fremont and Kit Carson during exploration of the Great Salt Lake in 1845, who rode on horseback over salt from the thickness of a wafer to twelve inches and were informed by the Indians that there was an abundance of fresh water on it and plenty of antelope. It is said they shot a pronghorn antelope on the island and in gratitude for the ...
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  • 3. Utah State University Logan Utah
    Logan City, commonly referred to Logan, is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2010 census recorded the population was 48,174, with an estimated population of 48,997 in 2014. By 2050 the population of Logan is expected to double. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census. and was declared by Morgan Quitno in 2005 and 2007 to be the safest in the United States in those years. Logan also is the location of the main campus of Utah State University.
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  • 4. Beaver Mountain Logan Utah
    Beaver Mountain is a ski area in the western United States, in northern Utah. First opened 79 years ago in 1939, it is located near the summit of Logan Canyon in the Bear River Mountains, west of Bear Lake and near the border with Idaho. While smaller and less developed than a number of Utah ski resorts, Beaver Mountain is very popular with residents of nearby Logan, Utah State University, the surrounding Cache Valley, and the Bear Lake region, including southeastern Idaho. The slopes of the mountain are predominantly east-facing, and it receives somewhat less snowfall than those resorts facing west. Since it does not currently employ snowmaking equipment, the ski area is entirely dependent upon the ample natural snowfall, and therefore often opens several weeks later than most other resor...
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  • 5. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Brigham City
    Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is a 74,000-acre National Wildlife Refuge in Utah, established in 1928. The refuge is part of a national system of fee ownership lands purchased from willing sellers, mostly private property owners. The refuge encompasses the Bear River and its delta where it flows into the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in eastern Box Elder County. It includes a variety of habitats, such as open water, mudflats, wetlands, and uplands. The refuge hosts millions of migratory birds each year including species such as bald eagle and tundra swan. There are more than 41,000 acres of freshwater wetlands. The Refuge is approx. 80,000 acres of Federal and State lands that are management by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The surrounding lands are occupied by multiple hunt...
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  • 6. City Of Rocks National Reserve Almo
    The City of Rocks National Reserve, also known as the Silent City of Rocks, is a United States National Reserve and state park lying 2 miles north of the south central Idaho border with Utah. It is widely known for its excellent rock climbing and rock formations. The rock spires in the City of Rocks and adjacent Castle Rocks State Park are largely composed of granitic rock of the Oligocene Almo pluton and Archean Green Creek Complex. The City of Rocks is a popular rock climbing area, with over 1,000 traditional and bolt-protected routes. In the 1980s, it was home to some of the most difficult routes in the USA, mostly developed by Idaho climber Tony Yaniro. Climbers in the region refer to the area as simply 'The City'. California Trail wagon trains of the 1840s and 1850s left the Raft Rive...
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  • 7. Golden Spike National Historic Site Corinne
    Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The nearest city is Brigham City, approximately 32 miles east-southeast of the site. It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the first Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. The final joining of the rails spanning the continent was signified by the driving of the ceremonial Golden Spike.
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