Peter Skeen Ogden

The city, the canyon, the valley, the river — all named for a man who never lived here. Peter Skene Ogden was a British fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, sent through in the 1820s to trap it bare, a 'fur desert' to keep American rivals out. It didn't hold. In 1825, at Mountain Green, American trappers faced him down, wrongly said he was on U.S. soil, and lured off two dozen of his men with hundreds of pelts. Ogden withdrew north. He left sharp journals and, without meaning to, his name on the city that rose here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 5.7 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 7.5 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Powder Mountain — 9.9 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 13 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac

More markers nearby

• Pleasant Green Taylor — 2.8 mi
• Site of Mound Fort — 4.2 mi
• Farr's Fort — 4.3 mi
• First Toll Gate in Ogden Canyon — 4.6 mi