Ogden Canyon Toll Gate

For twenty-two years, the road up Ogden Canyon cost money. Lorin Farr and Isaac Goodale built the first route through the canyon and set a toll gate near this spot in November 1860; from 1865 the Ogden Canyon Road Company ran it, with John Taylor among the principal stockholders and James Dinsdale keeping the gate for fourteen years. The tolls ended on February 20, 1882, when the canyon became a public road. It still is — the drive up to Pineview Reservoir follows the route the tolls paid for.

What the plaque says

805 feet North of this site was located the toll gate established November 15, 1860 by Lorin Farr and Isaac Goodale, builders of the first road through Ogden Canyon. From 1865 to 1882 it was operated by the Ogden Canyon Road Company with the original builders and John Taylor as principal stockholders. James Dinsdale was gate-keeper fourteen years. It became a public road February 20, 1882.

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

• First Toll Gate in Ogden Canyon — steps away
• Farr's Fort — 1.2 mi
• Malan Heights — 1.6 mi
• Sacred Heart Academy — 1.7 mi