Malan Heights

Tim Malan, an Italian immigrant who grew up in Ogden, spent the early 1890s carving a wagon road up Taylor Canyon with his sons, pick and shovel and switchback by switchback. At the top he opened Malan Heights, a summer hotel in a high mountain basin — cabins, a dining room famous for fried chicken, carriages hauling guests up for the view. It ran barely a decade before closing in 1904 and burning soon after. Nothing's left in the basin but a rusted boiler. The road survives as the trail to Malan's Peak.

What the plaque says

In 1860s Tim B. Malan found a mountain basin containing a spring and timber. By 1868, he was selling logs. Using his roller invention to get them safely down the cliff. July 1892 Tim & sons finished making a road with pick & shovel; later hewed a switchback road, built a home & hotel. Guests came in spring wagons to enjoy Aunt Louis' cooking, play various games or watch activities in town through a powerful telescope. Malan Heights is seen southeast of this marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 1.6 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 4.5 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 — 6.8 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 14 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

• Sacred Heart Academy — 0.6 mi
• Bertha Eccles Community Art Center (2) Mark — 1.1 mi
• Weber College-The Moench Building — 1.1 mi
• Pierre-Jean De Smet — 1.1 mi