79 haunted destinations cataloged across Utah, spanning 21 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and theater — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City established its municipal cemetery in 1848 with the first burial of Mary Wallace. The grounds were formally incorporated in 1851 and grew to 120 acres containing roughly 130,000 burial sites—the largest municipally-owned cemetery in the United States. The cemetery served as both civic burial ground and stage for one of Utah Territory's most notorious criminal scandals.
Ballard, UT
Skinwalker Ranch is a 512-acre property southeast of Ballard, Utah, in the Uintah Basin. Formerly known as the Sherman Ranch, it has been the subject of paranormal and UAP research since the mid-1990s and is now owned by businessman Brandon Fugal, whose investigation has been documented in the History Channel series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Ogden, UT
Erected in 1930 as offices for the Union Pacific stockyard complex in West Ogden, the Exchange Building served the livestock trade until 1959, when Weber County purchased it and converted it into the Weber County Mental Health Institute. The basement functioned as a county morgue during those decades. The building was eventually vacated and has sat largely abandoned since, landing on Preservation Utah's 2025 Most Endangered list.
Tooele, UT
The building at 140 E 200 S in Tooele, Utah was originally constructed in 1873 as a private residence by Samuel F. Lee. It was converted into a hospital serving the Tooele area and operated as a medical and elderly care facility through much of the 20th century. The hospital closed in 2001 when a modern medical center opened elsewhere in the county. In 2006, the building was converted into Asylum 49, a haunted attraction and paranormal investigation venue.
Santaquin, UT
Leslie's Family Tree Restaurant operated at 77 W Main Street in Santaquin, Utah for 36 years before permanently closing on November 13, 2020. The building is over 100 years old and served as a mechanic shop, floral shop, post office, and Greyhound bus stop before becoming a restaurant. The owners retired during the COVID-19 pandemic; the closure ended a three-generation community institution.
Syracuse, UT
Fielding Garr, sent by the LDS Church to manage its livestock herds, established the ranch on Antelope Island in 1848. The adobe structure he built that year remains Utah's oldest building still on its original foundation. After the Church sold the island in 1870 to rancher John Dooley, the operation grew into one of the largest sheep ranches in the United States, eventually supporting 10,000 animals. Ranching continued until 1981, when Antelope Island State Park was established. The island's most notorious historical figure is Jean Baptiste, a Salt Lake City gravedigger convicted in 1862 of robbing more than 300 graves; he was tattooed on the forehead with 'Robbing the Dead,' banished to Antelope and then Fremont Island, and vanished within weeks.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Alta Club was founded in 1883 by eighty-one charter members—thirteen years before Utah statehood—and modeled on prominent gentlemen's clubs in England and San Francisco. Its current Italian Renaissance clubhouse at 100 East South Temple was designed by architect Frederick Albert Hale and opened June 1, 1898.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Capitol Theatre opened August 2, 1913 as the Orpheum Theatre, designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh in the Italian Renaissance Revival and Beaux Arts styles at 50 West 200 South in Salt Lake City. It was renamed the Capitol Theatre in 1927. On July 4, 1949 — exactly 59 years after a fire at the Grand Opera House that previously occupied the site — a basement fire killed 17-year-old usher Richard Duffin while approximately 600 patrons evacuated safely. A $8.6 million renovation in 1975 restored the building; a $32 million renovation began in 2013.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Portland Cement Company began operations at this west Salt Lake City site in 1894. Over the following decades, the plant recorded more than 11 documented worker deaths from machinery accidents, falls, and industrial hazards. The facility closed and sat derelict for years before Fear Factory Entertainment Group acquired it in 2010 and opened a seasonal haunted attraction in 2011.
Salt Lake City, UT
Fort Douglas was established in October 1862 when Colonel Patrick E. Connor led 750 California–Nevada Volunteers to a plateau east of Salt Lake City. Connor's mandate included guarding the overland mail routes and monitoring the Mormon-controlled territory. The fort served through the Spanish-American War, both World Wars, and functioned as a prisoner-of-war hospital for German soldiers during World War I.
Salt Lake City, UT
Memory Grove Park in Salt Lake City occupies a portion of City Creek Canyon at the mouth of the Wasatch Mountains. The city set aside the land as a park in 1902. In the 1920s, the Service Star Legion — a women's memorial organization — led the effort to develop it as a formal military memorial, planting trees and installing monuments honoring Utah's veterans.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Pioneer Memorial Museum is operated by the International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City. The museum displays artifacts spanning Utah's pioneer era, from the earliest settlers entering the Salt Lake Valley through the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot opened in 1910 at 300 S. Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City, designed by Chicago architect Henry Schlack at a cost of $750,000. Built deliberately to outshine the Union Pacific Depot completed a year earlier, the French Renaissance and Beaux-Arts structure features a limestone, brick, and terra-cotta exterior with three large arched windows on each side. During World War II, the depot processed 15 to 20 trains daily. It served as Salt Lake City's Amtrak station from 1986 to 1999. The building now houses the Utah Division of State History and the Rio Gallery.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Salt Lake City and County Building was constructed on Washington Square between 1891 and 1894 by the firm of Monheim, Bird, and Proudfoot in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, at a cost of more than $900,000. The cornerstone was laid July 25, 1892, and the building was dedicated December 28, 1894. It served as Utah's capitol from statehood in 1896 until 1915, and housed the courtroom where labor organizer Joe Hill was condemned to death in 1914. Salt Lake County relocated to a new complex in the 1980s; the structure now functions as city hall for Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Salt Lake Masonic Temple is the headquarters of Utah Freemasonry. Built between 1925 and 1927 from Little Cottonwood Canyon granite at a cost of approximately $750,000 and dedicated in November 1927, the five-story building is widely regarded as Salt Lake City's best example of Egyptian Revival architecture. The building has been in continuous Masonic use since opening.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Devereaux House, also called the Staines-Jennings Mansion, was built in 1857 for William Staines and is the first building in the Salt Lake Valley constructed on a scale that could be described as a mansion. Local entrepreneur William Jennings, the valley's first millionaire, named the house 'Devereaux' for a family property in Yardley, Birmingham, England.
Salt Lake City, UT
The McCune Mansion was built between 1898 and 1901 for railroad magnate Alfred William McCune and his wife Elizabeth at a reported cost of $1 million. The Gothic Revival design with East Asian influences was developed by architect S.C. Dallas after a two-year McCune-funded study tour of America and Europe.
Salt Lake City, UT
Brigham Young's Forest Farm stood four miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City, where a wife-in-residence supervised Young's agricultural experiments — including Utah's first alfalfa and sugar beet cultivation. The Gothic Revival cottage, built between 1861 and 1863 at a cost of $25,000, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 1975 it was sawed in half horizontally and transported to Pioneer Trail State Park (now This Is the Place Heritage Park), reopening for tours on July 24, 1976.
Salt Lake City, UT
US Ghost Adventures operates its Salt Lake City program as "Salt Lake Ghosts," a nightly walking tour of downtown Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City & County Building, and former Hotel Plandome, part of the company's multi-city chain of city-branded ghost tours.
Ogden, UT
Ogden banker Archie P. Bigelow commissioned the hotel in 1927; architects Hodgson & McClenahan designed it in Italian Renaissance Revival style at a construction cost of $1.25 million. The 10-story building has remained the largest hotel in Ogden since it opened. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The building was renamed Ben Lomond Hotel in 1933 and restored to the Bigelow name in 2017; it was converted to apartments and event venue use around 2019.
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Hill Air Force Base was established in 1940 on land near Ogden, Utah, designated as Ogden Air Depot. Named after Major Ployer Peter Hill, a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who died testing the B-17 Flying Fortress prototype in 1935, the base officially opened November 7, 1940. The facility was expanded during World War II and redesignated as Hill Air Force Base in 1948. BLDG 1205 represents one of the numerous structures constructed during the base's expansive mid-twentieth-century development.
Ogden, UT
The mansion at 2580 Jefferson Avenue was built in 1893 for Ogden businessman James Clarence Armstrong. In 1896 it was bought by David and Bertha Eccles, who raised their large family there for roughly half a century. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as the Eccles Community Art Center, a free public gallery.
Ogden, UT
The eight-bedroom sandstone-and-brick mansion at 505 27th Street was built around the turn of the twentieth century and served as the primary residence of firearms inventor John Moses Browning until his death in 1926. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 (reference number 73001863). After decades of varied use, it is again privately held and stewarded by a preservation nonprofit.
Ogden, UT
The Lighthouse Lounge is a bar on Ogden's Historic 25th Street, a block long associated with the city's rougher railroad-era trade. The building it occupies is described in local sources as a former brothel from the street's red-light period. Twenty-Fifth Street's saloons, brothels, and reputed underground passages are a documented part of Ogden's history.
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Ogden City Cemetery was established in 1851 and spans 60 acres east of Washington Boulevard. Florence Louise Grange was buried here on December 29, 1918, having died of influenza at age 15 after a ten-day illness. Her father Ralph Manton Grange was one of Utah's first auto mechanics—a biographical fact that likely seeded the car-related legend that grew around her grave.
Ogden, UT
Architects John and Donald Parkinson designed the current Ogden Union Station building, completed in 1924, after fire destroyed its 1889 predecessor. The station was known as the 'Crossroads of the West' during its peak, handling more than 60 trains per day. On New Year's Eve 1944, two passenger trains collided in heavy fog near Bagley, Utah—killing 48 people—and the station's downstairs ballroom served as a temporary morgue. Amtrak ended service in 1997; Ogden City purchased the property in 2022.
Ogden, UT
Construction of Peery's Egyptian Theater began in autumn 1923 on Washington Boulevard in Ogden. The atmospheric movie palace, designed by Leslie S. Hodgson and Myrl A. McClenahan in Egyptian Revival style, opened July 3, 1924 at a cost of $250,000. After a 1984 closure and extensive restoration, the theater reopened in 1997 and is now operated by a foundation on behalf of Weber County and Ogden City.
Ogden, UT
The Prairie Schooner is a long-running Old West-themed steakhouse in Ogden where guests dine inside enclosed covered-wagon booths beneath a painted night sky. The restaurant's ghost lore is tied to a former family owner said to have died after the family lost the business, and the story is repeated in Ogden's local and tourism press.
Ogden, UT
US Ghost Adventures runs its Ogden program under the local consumer brand Ogden Ghosts, a nightly downtown walking tour covering roughly one mile in about an hour, meeting at Union Station Plaza.
Park City, UT
The Daly-West Mine began operating in the late 1800s as part of Park City's silver and lead mining boom. At 11:15 PM on July 15, 1902, an underground explosion on the 1,200-foot level killed 34 miners—the worst mining disaster in Park City's history. Most died from asphyxiation rather than the blast itself, as poisonous gas spread through connecting tunnels into the adjacent Ontario Mine. The State of Utah enacted legislation after the disaster prohibiting the routine underground storage of explosives.
Park City, UT
John Bogan completed a boarding house at 221 Main Street in Park City in 1904; it is the building Parkites later knew as the Imperial Hotel. It briefly served as an emergency hospital during the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived a 1940 fire. After operating as a hotel into the mid-2000s, the building was acquired by the owners of Riverhorse on Main and reopened as Riverhorse Provisions, a café and market.
Park City, UT
The Park City Territorial Jail is preserved in the basement of the Park City Museum at 528 Main Street, the building that historically served as Park City's City Hall. Built in 1885 during the silver-mining boom, the jail operated for more than 80 years and held its final prisoners in 1966. Today it functions as the centerpiece exhibit of the Park City Museum, operated by the Park City Historical Society.
Park City, UT
The Egyptian Theatre opened on Christmas Day 1926 at 328 Main Street, built on the site of the Dewey Theatre, which had collapsed under a snow load in January 1916. Its Egyptian Revival decoration followed the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. It is now the Mary G. Steiner Egyptian Theatre, owned by a preservation foundation and operated as a year-round performing-arts venue and a Sundance Film Festival site.
Park City, UT
St. Mary's Parish was established in 1881 to serve Park City's largely non-Mormon mining community. A small wood-frame church burned within a year of completion. The replacement, built in 1884 from buff limestone with Gothic arches and a wooden belfry, survived the 1898 fire that destroyed much of downtown and is now Utah's oldest Catholic church still in use. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1979.
Park City, UT
The Snowed Inn operated as a bed and breakfast in an older mansion off Park City's State Route 224 beginning in 1986. The original owners launched a sleigh-ride dining program in 1990. After selling the original property in 2000, the operation moved to a new Victorian-style replica building at Park City Mountain Resort, which opened in December 2000 and continues to host sleigh rides and dinners.
Park City, UT
Washington School House was built in 1889 as one of three original public schools in Park City, named for George Washington and constructed in hammered limestone that survived the town's catastrophic 1898 fire. After the school closed, the building served as a dancehall for a local Veterans of Foreign Wars post before reopening as a bed and breakfast in 1984. A 2011 renovation converted it to the luxury boutique hotel it is today.
Helper, UT
The Carbon Hotel at 258 South Main Street in Helper dates to the early 1900s and operated as a hotel, bar, and cafe, with a second-floor bordello that ran until 1976. Helper grew as a railroad and coal-mining town, and the brothel served miners and railroad workers. The Matt Warner Chapter of the Westerners purchased the building in 1987 and restored it as a meeting hall.
Helper, UT
Gateway Lanes is a bowling alley on Helper's Main Street, in a building that previously operated as a theater. Helper grew as a railroad and coal-mining town in Carbon County, and its Main Street retains a dense run of early-20th-century commercial buildings now on the National Register.
Helper, UT
The Western Mining and Railroad Museum opened in 1964 and occupies the old Helper Hotel building, built in 1913-1914 on Main Street. It documents the coal-mining and railroad history of Carbon County. Helper, named for the helper locomotives that pushed trains up Price Canyon, grew as a key rail and mining town.
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Spring Canyon, west of Helper in Carbon County, Utah, was one of the state's busiest coal-mining districts in the early-to-mid 20th century. Camps including Latuda, Standardville, Rains, Peerless, and Mutual sprang up after 1912, collectively home to thousands of miners and families and producing tens of millions of tons of coal before the mines closed by the 1960s. Latuda began around 1917 with the Liberty Mine and once had a post office, school, company store, and roughly 400 residents.
Provo, UT
Brigham Young University is a private research institution operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Provo, Utah. The Harold B. Lee Library serves as BYU's primary library facility, housing extensive collections across multiple subject areas including music, archives, and recordings. The Music Section occupies Level 4 of the library, providing specialized resources for music scholarship and research.
Provo, UT
R. Spencer Hines, a Provo businessman with real estate and mining interests, built the mansion in 1895. At construction, it was described as one of the finest homes in Provo. The brick Victorian structure is attributed in regional sources to Utah architect Richard K.A. Kletting (designer of the Utah State Capitol), though Wikipedia notes Richard C. Watkins as an alternative attribution. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1978, and to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Registry in 1996.
Provo, UT
US Ghost Adventures operates its Provo program under the local brand Provo Ghosts, running a nightly downtown walking tour covering the Hines Mansion, Berg Mortuary, and the Provo Carnegie Library.
Provo, UT
Utah State Hospital was founded in 1885 as the Territorial Insane Asylum, Utah's first public psychiatric institution. By the 1940s the 700-bed facility held over 1,100 patients, with mattresses lining hallways. A WPA-built amphitheater on the grounds became the site of the Haunted Castle, a Halloween haunted house that ran from 1971 to 1997 and was staffed in part by the hospital's own patients.
Brigham City, UT
The Oregon Short Line began construction of the Brigham City depot in 1906; it opened May 19, 1907. Built in Craftsman style from concrete blocks cast to resemble stone — the only commercial Craftsman structure in Brigham City — the depot handled up to 140 carloads of fruit per day at its 1910 peak and served military personnel during World War II. Passenger service declined through the 20th century. In 1994 the building was deeded to the Golden Spike Association for restoration as an educational center.
Brigham City, UT
Box Elder Middle School is an active public middle school in Brigham City, Utah, serving grades 6-8 for the Box Elder School District. The school provides standard secondary education and athletic facilities including gymnasium, locker rooms, and weight room amenities.
Brigham City, UT
Idle Isle Cafe was established on May 7, 1921 by P.C. Knudson and his wife Verabel in Brigham City, Utah, originally operating as an ice cream parlor and candy store. The name was selected through a community contest won by Mrs. Waldemar Call on April 5, 1921. The building itself predates the cafe — it is the 1892 Armeda Block, built by B.M. Young, son of Brigham Young, in honor of his wife Armeda Snow Young. Idle Isle operated continuously for over 104 years before closing in May 2025, at which point it was sold to an undisclosed buyer.
Logan, UT
The Caine Lyric Theatre opened in 1913, built by the prominent Thatcher family after a fire destroyed the Thatcher Opera House. It stands at 28 West Center Street in downtown Logan. Utah State University bought the theater in 2000, restored and expanded it, reopening in 2001, and it now houses the Lyric Repertory Company.
Logan, UT
Old Main is the oldest building on the Utah State University campus, begun in 1889, the year after the institution was founded as the Agricultural College of Utah. It crowns Old Main Hill above Logan and has served the school for more than a century, with its bell tower a longtime campus landmark.
Logan, UT
The Cronquist monument was placed in Logan City Cemetery in 1914. It marks the plot of the Cronquist family, who lost five of their eight children over a span of about twelve years. The grief-laden history of the family burial is the foundation of the statue's later legend.
Cedar City, UT
The Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre at Southern Utah University in Cedar City has served for decades as the outdoor home of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, founded in 1961. The adjoining Auditorium is a campus performance and rehearsal space. Together they anchor SUU's long-running theater program in southern Utah.
Cedar City, UT
The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery is Southern Utah University's art gallery in Cedar City, presenting rotating exhibitions of student, faculty, and visiting work. It sits within SUU's performing and visual arts complex, part of a campus whose roots reach back to the 1897 founding of the Branch Normal School.
Eureka, UT
Eureka City Hall was built in 1899, during the Tintic Mining District's peak as one of Utah's top gold-, silver-, and lead-producing areas. The building housed the city court, mayor, recorder, treasurer, council chamber, and the volunteer fire department. Eureka and the surrounding district were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as part of the Tintic Mining District Multiple Resource Area.
Eureka, UT
The Gatley Building is a historic commercial building on Eureka's Main Street in the Tintic Mining District. It now houses Crazy Mary's Rocks, a rock and mineral shop owned by Mary Crank. The building dates to the town's mining-boom era, when Eureka was the financial center of one of Utah's leading gold and silver districts.
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Bell Printing and Design operates at 901 East Highway 193 in Layton, Utah, serving as a full-service printing and graphic design company. The business acquired the property approximately three years before documentation of paranormal activity. The building's pre-Bell Printing history and original construction date remain undocumented in available sources.
Layton, UT
Layton City Park sits on land that was Verdeland Park — a wartime federal housing project built to house Hill Field workers after the base broke ground in January 1940. As the housing crisis eased in the 1950s, the project was dismantled and the cleared land became a civic complex now including Layton High School, the Davis County Library branch, the Heritage Museum, city offices, and the park itself.
Moab, UT
The Apache Motel is a mid-20th-century motel in Moab, built during the era when the surrounding canyon country drew Hollywood productions. It was used to house cast and crew working on Westerns filmed in the region, a heritage the motel still highlights.
Moab, UT
Canyonlands National Park preserves 337,598 acres of sandstone canyons, mesas, and rivers at the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers in southeastern Utah. The landscape has been continuously inhabited for at least 10,000 years, including substantial Ancestral Puebloan settlement between approximately 300 and 1300 AD, and remains within the ancestral homeland of the Ute people.
Pleasant Grove, UT
The building at 20 S Main Street in Pleasant Grove opened in 1926 as the New Alhambra Theatre, a silent movie house built by Albert Vanwagoner and his brothers. It operated as a discount cinema until December 1997, then briefly as the Little London Dinner Theatre (1999-2002), then as the Grove Theatre under owners Gayliene Omary and Jan Shelton. It currently operates as the Grove Event Center, a multipurpose banquet hall and live performance space with 180 seats.
Pleasant Grove, UT
Kiwanis Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah stands at the mouth of Battle Creek Canyon, where Mormon militiamen killed at least four Timpanogos men on March 5, 1849. The settlement bearing the creek's name was later renamed Pleasant Grove. A monument in the park commemorates the confrontation, described on its plaque as the first armed engagement between Mormon pioneers and the Timpanogos people of Utah Valley.
Veyo, UT
Between September 7 and 11, 1857, members of the Iron County district of the Utah Territorial Militia — acting with some Southern Paiute auxiliaries — massacred approximately 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train in the valley of Mountain Meadows. The emigrants were traveling from Arkansas to California. Only 17 children under the age of six were spared. A single militiaman, John D. Lee, was convicted and executed in 1877.
Veyo, UT
Between September 7 and 11, 1857, members of the Iron County district of the Utah Territorial Militia — acting alongside some Southern Paiute auxiliaries — massacred approximately 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train at Mountain Meadows in what is now Washington County, Utah. The emigrants, traveling from Arkansas to California, were approached under a flag of truce and then killed. Only 17 children under age six were spared. One militiaman, John D. Lee, was executed at the site in 1877. Congress designated Mountain Meadows a National Historic Landmark in 2011.
Brighton, UT
The Silver Fork community in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah dates to the 1850s as a mining and sawmill settlement of approximately 2,500 residents. The current lodge building evolved from a general store; Ethel and Ted Glines added the dining room and lodge addition in the mid-1950s. The reclaimed wood ceiling beams in the dining room came from the Cardiff Fork Mine. Current owner Dan Knopp purchased the property in 1993 and undertook extensive renovations while preserving historical materials.
Cisco, UT
Cisco began in the 1880s as a saloon and water-refilling stop for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in eastern Utah. It grew with ranching, sheep shipping, and later oil and gas, then declined as diesel locomotives ended its rail role and Interstate 70 bypassed the town. By 2020 it had about four residents.
Echo, UT
The Kozy Cafe in Echo, Utah, was built in 1924 and was originally owned by Willa and Cora Dilloree as a family-run roadside restaurant in the historic railroad town at the mouth of Echo Canyon. The cafe served as a community gathering place across multiple generations, and was used as a filming location for the television series 'Touched By An Angel.' The building is currently listed as closed in regional cafe directories.
Fairfield, UT
Camp Floyd was established in 1858 in Fairfield, Utah Territory, as the base for 3,500 US Army troops dispatched under General Albert Sidney Johnston to restore federal authority during the Utah War — the standoff between the US government and Latter-day Saint settlers. At its peak it was the largest US Army installation in the country, with approximately 400 buildings. When the Civil War began in 1861, the troops were recalled east. Most buildings were sold or demolished; the army left behind an unmarked military cemetery with approximately 84 graves.
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Highland City Cemetery in Highland, Utah County, is a municipally operated burial ground with approximately 450 interments, the earliest dating to 1965. The cemetery is managed by the City of Highland and contains primarily modern grave markers.
Honeyville, UT
Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville, Utah operates on a site known since at least the early 1900s, when it was commercially developed as Madsen Hot Springs. The Great Basin Shoshone-Bannock people used the springs long before European settlement. A 1937 lightning strike destroyed the original indoor pool structure; the modern outdoor complex was built in its place.
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Kay's Cross was a large stone monument—approximately 20 feet tall and 13 feet wide—built in 1946 on land owned by the Kingston family, a fundamentalist LDS offshoot in Davis County. The structure stood in a wooded hollow near Kaysville for decades, accumulating paranormal legends during the 1980s Satanic panic. On February 15, 1992, roughly 80 pounds of dynamite destroyed the cross at its base. The culprit was never identified. In 2013, the Kingston family opened the site as a commercial guided tour operation called 'Haunted Kay's Cross.'
Ogden Canyon, UT
Ogden Canyon, a scenic mountain pass between Ogden and Huntsville in Weber County, Utah, has served as a primary transportation corridor for over a century. The canyon road is characterized by winding curves and elevation changes that have historically contributed to vehicle accidents. The area has long been associated with paranormal folklore, including the widely distributed vanishing hitchhiker legend that emerged across North America in the 1930s.
Price, UT
The Geary Event Center, originally the Geary Theatre, is among the oldest buildings on the Utah State University Eastern campus in Price, completed in 1961. It is named for Elmo Geary, a professor of speech, debate, and theater who taught from 1951 until his death in 1961 and who championed the theater's construction. The venue has served as the campus's main proscenium performance hall and underwent a multi-million-dollar refurbishment.
Scofield, UT
On May 1, 1900, a black powder detonation in the Winter Quarters Mine No. 4 triggered a coal dust explosion that killed at least 200 men — the worst mining accident in American history at that time. The disaster left 107 widows and 268 fatherless children. Two mass funeral services were held on May 5, and 135 graves were dug at the Scofield Cemetery, some widened to accommodate fathers and sons buried together.
South Jordan, UT
On December 1, 1938, a school bus carrying students to Jordan High School was struck by a Denver and Rio Grande freight train at the Jordan Narrows crossing south of Salt Lake City. Dense fog and a blinding snowstorm obscured the approaching 'Flying Ute' train. The bus driver stopped and looked but did not see the train before crossing. The collision killed 24 people — 23 students and driver Farrold H. Silcox — and injured 16 others. It remains the deadliest school bus railroad crossing accident in United States history.
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Spanish Fork City Cemetery dates to the first burial in 1853, was officially established in 1868, and now spans 32 acres with over 12,000 headstones in the heart of Spanish Fork. Among its most notable monuments is the kneeling stone figure commissioned by Horace Ferreday in memory of his wife Laura Daniels Ferreday, who died in 1929 at age 32. Horace, a prominent local plumber, had the statue installed as a permanent expression of grief; he was buried beside her in 1972.
St. George, UT
The Augustus Hardy House at 46 West St. George Boulevard was built around 1871 for the local sheriff, constructed with a basalt rock foundation and double-thick adobe walls. While Hardy served as sheriff, vigilantes broke into the house, overpowered him, seized his jail keys, and removed a prisoner accused of murder — hanging him from a nearby tree. A bullet hole from the confrontation remains visible in one of the original doors.
Stansbury Park, UT
Built in 1854 on the orders of LDS apostle Ezra Taft Benson, the grist mill at what settlers called Richville processed wheat and corn for Tooele Valley pioneers for nearly ninety years. The Lee brothers constructed the mill under the direction of a church corporation that included Benson, John Rowberry, and Benjamin Crosland. Brigham Young purchased the property for the church in 1860. The mill ceased regular operation around 1938, sat dormant for four decades, and was restored by volunteers in the 1980s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Thistle, UT
Thistle was a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad service town established in the 1880s in Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah County. In April 1983, record snowmelt and rainfall saturated the canyon walls, producing a massive earthflow that dammed the Spanish Fork River. The resulting lake submerged Thistle under up to 50 feet of water. Federal and state agencies have called it the most costly landslide in U.S. history, with direct damages estimated at $200 million in 1983 dollars.
Tooele County, UT
Gold was discovered in the Oquirrh Mountains in 1870, founding the settlement first called Lewiston, later renamed Mercur. The town grew to roughly 5,000 residents after Gilbert S. Peyton successfully applied the cyanide process to gold extraction in December 1891 — the first successful use of that method in the United States. Fire swept through the business district in 1902 and destroyed most of the town. Mining continued intermittently through 1913, when the mines closed and the population dispersed. Barrick Gold operated the site again from 1985 to 1997, erasing all surface remnants of the original townsite except the cemetery.
West Valley City, UT
Glenn Weaver Memorial Park is a public neighborhood park in West Valley City, Utah, operated by the city's Parks and Recreation department. The park sits at 6385 West Cape Ridge Lane and offers playground equipment, a baseball field, paved walking paths, and maintained green space. West Valley City was incorporated in 1980 and grew rapidly through the late 20th century as suburban development extended south and west from Salt Lake City; Glenn Weaver Park's namesake honors a community member memorialized by the city.