First Toll Gate in Ogden Canyon

For twenty-two years, the only way up Ogden Canyon was to pay at the gate. Lorin Farr and Isaac Goodale spent three years hacking a road through the canyon's brush and rock, and in 1860 hung a toll gate at its mouth. Anyone bound for the farms and ranches of Ogden Valley paid to pass. A company ran it for years, with James Dinsdale keeping the gate for fourteen of them, until the road went public in 1882. That old private track is now State Route 39, the free highway thousands drive to Pineview and the ski country beyond.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 2.5 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 4.0 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 8.3 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 13 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Farr's Fort — 1.2 mi
• Malan Heights — 1.6 mi
• Sacred Heart Academy — 1.7 mi
• Pierre-Jean De Smet — 2.1 mi