1924 Echo Utah Railroad-Era Cafe
3525 Old Echo Rd, Echo, UT 84024
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Building is closed; exterior viewing only from public roads.
Access
Limited Access
Roadside historic cafe building in Echo Canyon; viewing from public roads
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1924 · Echo Canyon Railroad Community · Touched By An Angel Filming Location
The Kozy Cafe was built in 1924 in the small railroad community of Echo, Utah, in Summit County. The original owners were Willa and Cora Dilloree, who operated the cafe as a family-run restaurant in what was at the time a significant Union Pacific Railroad junction at the mouth of Echo Canyon, where coal and helper trains were assembled for the climb up the Wasatch.
The cafe became a regional gathering place; through the late twentieth century it was a regular post-game stop for North Summit school students and was known for homemade French fries and chocolate shakes. The cafe was used as a filming location for the television series 'Touched By An Angel.'
The Kozy Cafe is currently listed as closed in regional cafe directories. The Echo Depot, a Summit County historic landmark, sits nearby and provides additional context for the railroad-era community.
Sources
Local Echo retellings of the Kozy Cafe describe waitstaff during closing hours hearing requests for coffee refills from the bar area, followed by a creaking barstool turning, the sound of old cowboy boots scuffing across the floor toward the jukebox, and a Johnny Cash song — said to have been the favorite of the late owner known to staff and regulars as 'Fat' — beginning to play with the volume rising on its own.
Additional regional retellings describe lights coming on at unusual hours and footprints described as beginning and ending in the middle of a room. These accounts circulate in regional Utah ghost-tour writing rather than in named-investigator publications. With the cafe currently listed as closed, the haunted reputation remains in local memory and in roadside cafe lore.
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Drive past the Kozy Cafe in Echo, Utah, a 1924 cafe building in the historic railroad town at the mouth of Echo Canyon. Combine with a visit to the nearby Echo Depot, a Summit County historic landmark.
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