Old Ranger Station

When the government first tried to look after the mountains, it did it from a cabin like this. The national forests were only a few years old when this ranger station went up at Bear Creek, high in Huntington Canyon, in 1909. John Brockbank was the ranger who worked it, riding the district from 1909 to 1917 to watch the timber, the range, and the fires in country that until then no one had been paid to tend. Later rangers used it as a summer base. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers moved the old cabin down here in 1951.

What the plaque says

This building, erected in 1909 at Bear Creek site was originally the first Ranger Station in Huntington Canyon. John P. Brockbank served as ranger from November, 1909, until November, 1917. Later it was used as summer headquarters by the forest ranger in the nearby district. Finally it was given to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and in 1951, it was moved to this location to be headquarters of the Huntington Camp.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 15 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found
• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 21 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 21 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Skyline Drive — 21 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau

More markers nearby

• First Settlers in Castle Dale — 8.4 mi
• Tithing Granary — 9.1 mi
• First Public Building — 9.1 mi
• Charles Winder & Caroline Mills — 10 mi