Union Station- Golden Spike

They called Ogden the Junction City, and the reason stood here: Union Station, where the transcontinental lines met the local roads and made this the railroad capital of the Intermountain West. For decades, if you traveled by train through Utah, you changed cars in Ogden — the saying went that you couldn't get anywhere in the West without coming through it. This marker ties the station to the Golden Spike driven at Promontory in 1869, the event that made Ogden's fortune. The grand depot that survives dates to 1924, the third on the site.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.3 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 6.4 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 — 7.2 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 15 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

• Ogden City Wall/Golden Spike (2) Markers — steps away
• Belmont Building — 0.2 mi
• Watkins Grocery and Cranshaw Photograph — 0.2 mi
• Davenport Saloon — 0.3 mi