Brigham City

The city is named for Brigham Young, an important figure in Mormon history of the 19th century.
The transcontinental railroad was completed not far from here in 1869 just four years after the end of the Civil War

Visitor information

• Brigham City Welcome Center

  phone: +1 435 744-5567

The nearest major airport is Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) in Salt Lake City. For visitors with the means to charter their own flight, Brigham City Airport is only a short distance north from the center of town.
UTA offers bus service, and there are also plans to extend the FrontRunner commuter train to Brigham City at some point in the future.

• Brigham City Museum

  phone: +1 435-226-1439
  address: 24 North 300 West
  An art and history museum that has 6-8 temporary exhibitions each year. The museum features a permanent exhibition on the history of Brigham City that includes an interactive area geared to children. Historic collections include all of southern Box Elder County.

• Box Elder Museum

  phone: +1 435-226-1439
  address: 641 East 200 North
  Northern Utah's natural history museum. Exhibits include fossils, minerals, and information about the mining history of Box Elder County.

• Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

  phone: +1 435 723-5887

• Eagle Mountain Golf Course

  phone: +1 435 723-3212
  address: 960 East 700 South

• Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza

  phone: +1 435-723-7272
  address: 285 North Main St

• Mim's Bar and Grill

  phone: +1 435-744-2206
  address: 4020 North Highway 13
  Corinne. Just outside Brigham City to the west in Corinne.

• Galaxie Motel

  phone: +1 435 723-3439
  address: 740 South Main St
  Your basic mom-'n'-pop small-town motel (a dying breed). Clean and well-kept, decent beds, A/C. No pets; smoking and non-smoking rooms available. Office hours 8AM-10PM.

• Howard Johnson Inn

  phone: +1 435-723-8511
  address: 1167 South Main St
  Credit card is required. Pets allowed, storage safe in the room. Front desk open 24 hours.

Promontory Summit

Thirty miles to the west, you'll find Promontory Summit and the symbolic last spike which completed the Trans-Continental Railroad and joined East to West in 1869. The trip around the world overland described in Around the World in Eighty Days in 1872 passed through this point when crossing the United States of America. By 1904, Promontory Summit had been bypassed; the original tracks were removed in 1942.

• Golden Spike National Historic Park

  phone: +1 435 471-2209 ext 429
  address: Promontory Summit
  A May 10, 1869 last spike joined the Union and Central Pacific railroads here, uniting a nation by rail from coast to coast.

• Spiral Jetty

  address: Rozel Point peninsula
  Robert Smithson's 1970 earthwork sculpture forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide; over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth winds counterclockwise off the shore into the water. The water level in the lake fluctuates, so at times the sculpture is submerged and not easily visible.

• To get to Bear River City follow route 13 to Corinne and continue north.
• To the south the closest town would be Perry which is a very small town.
• To the east, Mantua is known for its large reservoir.