Brigham City
Brigham City is a city in Utah known for its peaches. It holds an annual celebration called Peach Days on the second weekend in September. It is a good base for visiting the Golden Spike National Historic Park where the American transcontinental railroad was completed. It is an important center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons).
Understand
[edit]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.
In 2018, it had a population of about 19,000 people.
Visitor information
[edit]- 1 Brigham City Welcome Center (1-15 Southbound), ☏ +1 435 744-5567.
Get in
[edit]The nearest major airport is Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC IATA) 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.
Get around
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See
[edit]- 2 Brigham City Museum
- 3 Box Elder Museum, 641 East 200 North (In the Hervin Bunderson Center on 200 North), ☏ +1 435-226-1439. Northern Utah's natural history museum. Exhibits include fossils, minerals, and information about the mining history of Box Elder County. Free.
Do
[edit]- 1 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
- 2 Eagle Mountain Golf Course, 960 East 700 South, ☏ +1 435 723-3212.
- Peach Days. On the second weekend in September, much of Main Street is closed off to cars, and the festival is celebrated by a parade, a car show, a carnival, and other activities.
Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]- Idle Isle Café, 24 S Main St, ☏ +1 435 734-2468. Old-fashioned diner with original diner counter and booths from 1921.
- Firehouse Pizzeria, 646 S Main St, ☏ +1 435-723-4222. M-Th 11AM-9PM, F-Sa 11AM-10PM, Su closed.
Drink
[edit]- Mim's Bar and Grill, 4020 North Highway 13, ☏ +1 435-744-2206. Corinne. Just outside Brigham City to the west in Corinne.
Sleep
[edit]- 1 Galaxie Motel, 740 South Main St, ☏ +1 435 723-3439. 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. $40.
- 2 Howard Johnson Inn, 1167 South Main St, ☏ +1 435-723-8511. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: 11AM. Credit card is required. Pets allowed, storage safe in the room. Front desk open 24 hours.
Nearby
[edit]Promontory Summit
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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.
Go next
[edit]- To get to Bear River City follow route 13 to Corinne and continue north.
- To the south, the closest town is the very small town of Perry.
- To the east, Mantua is known for its large reservoir.
| Routes through Brigham City |
| Idaho Falls ← Pocatello ← | N  S |
→ Ogden → Salt Lake City |
| Boise ← Burley ← | N  S |
→ Ogden → Junction W  E |
| Grand Teton N.P. ← Logan ← | N  S |
→ Ogden → Salt Lake City |
| Pocatello ← Logan ← | N  S |
→ END |