Garfield & Lake Point Resorts

For a few decades the south shore was Utah's seaside. The railroads made it: bring the tracks to the water, build a pavilion, and the crowds will come by the trainload. Garfield Beach, opened in 1881, grew into the grandest of them — a pavilion the size of a tabernacle, two hundred bathhouses, a restaurant, a racetrack, even electric lights, with a steamboat named the General Garfield moored offshore. Lake Point offered a dance hall and white sand nearby. Eighty-four thousand people came in a single year. Fire took Garfield in 1904; the grand era went with it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Saltair — 7.8 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• Great Salt Lake — 14 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 14 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• International Peace Gardens — 16 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature

More markers nearby

• Black Rock Resort — steps away
• Adobe Rock — 4.6 mi
• A Struggle for Water, west of the Jordan River — 13 mi
• Bingham Canyon — 13 mi