Elks Lodge

A mining boomtown ran on more than wages and ore — it ran on its lodges. Park City's Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was one of the fraternal orders that gave a transient population of miners something like a social institution: a hall for meetings and charity, a network of mutual aid in a town where men arrived as strangers. These orders are mostly faded now, but in their day they were the connective tissue of Western towns. This marker remembers the Elks' place in Park City's.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Park City — steps away
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.
• Park City Main Street — steps away
  A historic mining town turned world-class ski and film festival destination
• Park City Mountain — 0.7 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Deer Valley — 1.6 mi
  A ski-only luxury resort above Park City, now in the middle of the largest expansion in U.S. ski history.

More markers nearby

• Masonic Hall — steps away
• Park City, City Hall (2) Markers — steps away
• St. Luke's Episcopalian Church (2) Markers — steps away
• "Ten O'Clock Whistle" and Old Public Library — steps away