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Best small towns in Utah to explore?

You guys all should visit Nilbog, UT. Just stay away from the green jello.






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UGLI baby said:
You thinkin thats the one my friends talked about?

They claimed the town they were in had a cemetery that when you walked into it the air turned cold even though it was warm outside.
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We used to go out there with girls and video cameras lol to try and catch ghosts on camera. It's pretty creepy. There's another ghost town right by Mercur, it's just up the next canyon. I forget what it's called, but people still live there.
 
Archie Moses said:
We used to go out there with girls and video cameras lol to try and catch ghosts on camera. It's pretty creepy. There's another ghost town right by Mercur, it's just up the next canyon. I forget what it's called, but people still live there.
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Are they ghosts?
 
https://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/mercur.html
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The end finally came in 1951 when the cost of mining exceeded the value of gold. Now after all these years, the town has been scraped to the ground, and nothing remains but a cemetery trail, and a dirt road that goes to the town entrance.
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That stinks they ripped all the buildings down because it looks very cool in that old pic. That seems to be the issue with these Utah towns(or lack of Utah towns that still have infrastructure). They were there for some kind of industry, the industrial purpose ends, and then there isn't any reason to hang around there anymore so nobody keeps anything going and they completely get wiped off the map. The best "ghost" towns for exploration purposes are when the population has peaked in the past, dropped to whatever it is in the present, but enough people hang around so that they place doesn't completely evacuate or collapse and most of the buildings remain intact, leaving many areas available for roaming.
 
There's a really cool ghost town down my Scholfield Reservoir. It's by the mine that has been burning for over a hundred years or something like that.
 
Archie Moses said:
Ophir is the other town I was talking about my Mercur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophir,_Utah
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Lol. Read through this whole thread all excited to tell you about Ophir. Then you found out about it yourself... Haha.

Oakley is a cool town. They have an old timey diner there. I also like kamas and heber city.

Morgan is fun as well, then you can drive through east canyon and down emigration canyon right back into slc.

Logan is a really fun place to walk around and read the historical markers on the buildings downtown.
 
Also, have you been to copperton? That town will surprise you if not. Check out the old Bingham high school. That school was in operation up until like 96. A bunch of my friends went there for middle school, but I just missed the cutoff. It is a crazy place. We used to sneak into the school and mess around.
 
b_line said:
Also, have you been to copperton? That town will surprise you if not. Check out the old Bingham high school. That school was in operation up until like 96. A bunch of my friends went there for middle school, but I just missed the cutoff. It is a crazy place. We used to sneak into the school and mess around.
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I heard they tore old Bingham down.
 
Marysvale. The town itself is really small, but there's a lot of good hiking/ATV trails and some good fishing. Just spent the weekend down there and it was great for re-energizing the battery.
 
addictionary said:
Is there street dealing biz in SLC suburbs?
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you talking about like food carts and stuff? There are some taco stands, and a couple things like that, but not like other countries do. They have a swap meet in West Valley, it is like ten minutes from Salt Lake.
 
b_line said:
you talking about like food carts and stuff? There are some taco stands, and a couple things like that, but not like other countries do. They have a swap meet in West Valley, it is like ten minutes from Salt Lake.
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No but thanks for the info. Utah sounds warmer than I thought.

I was more curious about the crime rates in the state compared to the National average.
 
Anyone been to Kenilworth? It's not a ghost town or anything, just an old coal mining town near Price. I have some in-laws that live there full time and some more that own hoses up there (at one time these houses could be bought for about 5k) that they use during family reunions and stuff. There's now some natural gas stuff going on and they actually built some new houses about a mile from the old town.

Don't know what people think of Kanab but that's where my dad was from and I have some family that lives there and across the Arizona boarder in Fredonia. Lots of old westerns were filmed in that area.
 
Gameface said:
Anyone been to Kenilworth? It's not a ghost town or anything, just an old coal mining town near Price. I have some in-laws that live there full time and some more that own hoses up there (at one time these houses could be bought for about 5k) that they use during family reunions and stuff. There's now some natural gas stuff going on and they actually built some new houses about a mile from the old town.

Don't know what people think of Kanab but that's where my dad was from and I have some family that lives there and across the Arizona boarder in Fredonia. Lots of old westerns were filmed in that area.
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They must be loaded if they can afford hoses in a place like Kenilworth! Get in on that will doe!
 
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