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Show X INTRODUCTION internationally known artists to the valley during the year. Dramatics and public speaking are emphasized in schools and churches. Logan Golf and Country Club’s beautiful course, at the mouth of Logan Canyon, is known to the tough. With 18 holes, the treelined fairways are always freshened by the canyon breeze. Also, a beautiful golf course and a picturesque setting is located at Smithfield, Utah, eight miles north of Logan. The course is a very challenging nine-hole course that is open to public use. The Cache Chamber Of Commerce acts as a clearing house for all the major activities of the City and County. It has fine cooperation from the Logan City and Cache County officials, the church officials, the luncheon clubs, the American Legion, the fraternal organizations, the Logan Junior Chamber Of Commerce, and the school officials. It has 600 active members, and many worth-while projects are accomplished. Logan Canyon As a scenic attraction, Logan Canyon is unsurpassed anywhere. Starting three miles east of Logan, the gorge cuts the mountain range and extends east and north for forty miles through the most beautiful scenery imaginable. A jagged and roughly-hewn canyon, yet it is green and verdant throughout. Very few canyons of this size and depth have the many camping flats with green foliage and grass that Logan Canyon has. The gorge is as deep as the Grand Canyon and nearly as wide. The range of mountains towers to a maximum height of 9,000 feet above sea level, making the canyon nearly a mile deep. In many sections mountains are glaciated, having harbored at least eleven glaciers. Several small lakes in the tops of the hills attest to this fact. Logan River is lined with unusual springs. The one from which Logan gets its water supply results from a great plunging truncated syncline in which the water is gathered underground at a width of more than nine miles east and west, and twelve miles north and south. The canyon having cut across the structure, allows the water from this great underground drainage basin to issue to the surface in the bottom of the canyon. This type of spring always produces cold water-42 degrees. At Beaver Mountain, 29 miles up the canyon, is a new ski area, popular among enthusiasts of northern Utah and southern Idaho. It has a lodge, concessions, ample parking and three chair lifts, and a T-bar on a beginner’s hill. A new lodge and ski tow operate during the ski season. Logan Canyon differs from most canyons of the Wasatch in that the bottom is always green and covered with vegetation. There are numerous cirques and flats admirable suited for camping. Douglas fir, Engleman spruce, lodgepole pine, and fir balsam are quite abundant. Large areas are covered with aspen, willow, alder and birch. Hard maples occupy the higher slopes, and junipers cover the dry ridges. Logan Canyon has the distinction of having the oldest living juniper tree in the world. It is located on Cottonwood Ridge above the Logan Cave, about two miles from the road. The tree is nearly 27 feet in circumference, 44 feet high, and is estimated by authorities to be more than 3,000 years old. It was a sapling in the time of King Solomon, Logan River has always been a good fishing stream. The river is stocked every year and the abundance of food in the stream contributes to rapid growth. A few years ago a German brown trout weighing 37 pounds was caught. Hundreds of elk roam the ranges, and thousands of deer live among the aspens, and quite often are visible from the highway. Through programs largely completed by the old Civilian Conservation Corps and augmented by the U. S. Forest Service, running water, sanitary and picnicking improvements enable thousands to enjoy the cool of the canyon about half the year. In the largest area, Guinavah Park, are 41 individual spots complete with stove, table, garbage can, etc. |
