Stage Coach Inn/Camp Floyd State Park (2)

While the town outside roared, this house stayed quiet on purpose. When the army came in 1858, Fairfield exploded into a boomtown they called Frogtown — seventeen saloons, gamblers, and gunfire in the street. John Carson, who had helped found the town, built his inn to be the opposite of all that: no liquor, no rowdy dancing, a clean bed, a decent meal. It became the first stagecoach stop south of Salt Lake City and, in 1860, a Pony Express station, hosting everyone from General Johnston to Porter Rockwell. Frogtown is gone. Carson's sober inn still stands, restored.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Thanksgiving Point — 11 mi
  A massive complex with dinosaur bones, gardens, and a curiosity museum
• Lehi Roller Mills — 16 mi
  The flour mill from the movie Footloose
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 18 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument — 24 mi
  Three spectacularly decorated caves connected by hand-carved tunnels

More markers nearby

• Camp Floyd, Pony Express, Journalism (3) — steps away
• Free Masons — steps away
• Camp Floyd Cemetery Veterans Memorial — 0.6 mi
• American Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII and Navy Armed Guard — 15 mi