Utah Coal & Lumber

Park City began as a silver camp, but a boomtown needs more than ore — it needs lumber to timber the mines and build the boardwalks, and coal to heat the houses through a high-country winter. This marker remembers the Utah Coal & Lumber operation that supplied exactly that, the unglamorous backbone of a town better remembered for what came out of its mines than for what had to be hauled in. Park City's silver made the headlines; the coal and timber yards kept it standing.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Park City — steps away
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.
• Park City Main Street — steps away
  A historic mining town turned world-class ski and film festival destination
• Park City Mountain — 0.6 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Deer Valley — 1.7 mi
  A ski-only luxury resort above Park City, now in the middle of the largest expansion in U.S. ski history.

More markers nearby

• Rodney W. Schreurs Centennial Park — steps away
• The Mortuary — steps away
• The Claimjumper Hotel — steps away
• Elks Lodge — steps away