Visitors Guide, Davis County


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Visitors Guide to the Wasatch Experimental Forest, Davis County, Utah


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Describes the history and points of interest of the Wasatch Experimental Forest, a research area dedicated to studies of wildland management located in the Wasatch Mountains.







Insight Guides Utah (Travel Guide eBook)


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This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Utah and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination’s history and culture, it’s ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this Utah guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it’s deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Canyonlands National Park, Zion National Park, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you’ll be exploring Bryce Canyon National Park or discovering Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on the ground. Our Utah travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19. The Insight Guide UTAH covers: Ogden; Salt Lake City; Provo; Park City; Dinosaur; Flaming Gorge; High Uintas; Castle Country; Sanpete and Sevier Valleys; Great Basin; Zion National Park; St. George and Cedar City; Bryce Canyon National Park; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Capitol Reef National Park; Arches National Park; Canyonlands National Park; Moab and San Juan County. In this guide book to Utah you will find: IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of Utah to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics. BEST OF The Top Attractions and Editor’s Choice featured in this Utah guide book highlight the most special places to visit. TIPS AND FACTS Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Utah as well as an introduction to Utah’s food and drink, and fun destination-specific features. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to Utah, how to get there and how to get around, to Utah’s climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more. COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS Every part of the destination, from Ogden to Provo has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this Utah travel guide. CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAP Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Salt Lake City, Cedar City and many other locations in Utah. STRIKING PICTURES This guide book to Utah features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry and the spectacular Pipe Spring National Monument.




South Davis County


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South Davis County is bounded by the majestic Wasatch Mountain Range to the east and the Great Salt Lake to the west. Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington, and Kaysville are the major population centersall originating as early Mormon settlements. Concerned that their livestock might harm new crops and gardens being planted in Salt Lake City, their leader, Brigham Young, sent herds of cattle, mules, and horses north to graze along the lakeshore in 1847. Small farming communities established the following spring supplied goods and produce to the growing populations of Salt Lake City to Ogden. Organized as Davis County in 1850, Farmington was the center of government. Railroad service, established in 1870, allowed the farmers and ranchers to reach markets within hours of harvesting. And in 1956, a six-foot pipeline was completed, delivering water from the Weber River to the communities along the front. Rapid expansion has resulted, but the pioneer spirit still prevails.




Explorer's Guide The Shenandoah Valley & Mountains of the Virginias: Includes Virginia's Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains & West Virginia's Alleghenies & New River Region


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A lively, comprehensive guide to the southern Appalachians, from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia. With visitation levels that rival Orlando and New York City, the southern Appalachians draw a huge array of weekenders, adventurers, and long-term visitors. This book offers historical insight, outdoor adventure, and all the information most travelers need to plan and enjoy their journey. This guide also serves as an insider's handbook to the nine national parks, offering active travelers the best access points and trailheads for kayaking, biking, and hiking excursions. In addition, this comprehensive guide to the region includes opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, and vacation cabins; hundreds of dining reviews, from barbecue to four-star cuisine; up-to-date maps; an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip planning; and handy icons that point out family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, places of special value, and lodgings that accept pets.




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An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah


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"An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to use buildings and the larger built environment as a lens to understand the state's history, material culture, settlement and natural landscape.Using more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide asks visitors to travel through Utah's cities and rural villages, exploring neighborhoods and other distinctive built landscapes in every part of the state's dramatic environs.An adobe house built in the 1860s in Virgin, and many other Utah towns speaks volumes about the transmission of ideas about style, about respectability, about the places Utah's white settlers originated, and about the use of materials that quite literally came from the earth itself.The Utah State Capitol reflects the Neo-Classicism preferred for statehouses throughout the United States, but the distinctiveness of the site overlooking a canyon to the east and a view toward the Great Salt Lake and its islands to the north and south down State Street, one of the longest streets in America set it apart and make it very much of this place.From the most common vernacular cabin to the modern architecture of the bi-centennial project resulting in Abravanel Symphony Hall and the Salt Lake Arts Center, this guide uses the diversity of Utah's architecture to make a point about the diversity of the state's people, their visions for the good life, and the particular response they made with their built environment to the unique geography of this beautiful place"--




Fort Davis


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Established and named for US secretary of war Jefferson Davis in 1854, Fort Davis was key to the eventual settlement of the Davis Mountains' rich grasslands. Camels once grazed at the fort. It served as home to the African American regiments known as the Buffalo Soldiers, and Lt. Henry Flipper, the first African American to graduate from West Point, was court-martialed at this post. Present-day visitors to the town of Fort Davis can gaze at the stars and imagine the immensity of the universe at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, stay the night at the Civilian Conservation Corps-built Indian Lodge at Davis Mountains State Park, or visit with a living-history volunteer or park ranger at Fort Davis National Historic Site.