Lagoon Utah

There are many things to do and see in the area. Nearby features include Willard bay State Park, Great Salt Lake State Park, Lagoon Amusement Park, and downtown Salt Lake City. ... [Read More]

Utah Commission on Volunteers
   Since 1952 Gurr has been giving swimming lessons to the community. Having taught more than 10,000 students to swim, she has never once charged for a lesson, but rather encourages her students to donate to a charitable organization. Through her affiliation with the Red Cross, Gurr was in charge of the swimming program at Lagoon for years. She also taught swimming to students of the Deaf and Blind School in Ogden and to handicapped children at the Clearfield community pool. At age 76, Gurr says she loves teaching senior citizen groups. Gurr also teaches water safety to the Boy Scouts. ... [Read More]

Utah History To Go - Bamburger Electric Railway
The Bamberger Electric Railway was built under the leadership of Simon Bamberger, pioneer Utah coal-mine operator and railroad entrepreneur. Bamberger projected the Ogden-Salt Lake City line as a steam line as early as 1891; and in 1908 Ogden was connected to Salt Lake City on what was known as the Bamberger. The line was electrified on 28 May 1910 and renamed the Bamberger Electric Railway. The business of the line included commuter and shopper travel between Ogden and Salt Lake City as well as heavy summer traffic to Lagoon resort. Bamberger had developed Lagoon at Farmington to compete with the Denver and Rio Grande's resort, Lake Park, on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. In 1908 the Bamberger had five daily trains running both directions. The Ogden depot of the Bamberger was located on Lincoln Avenue just north of 24th Street. On 7 May 1918 the Ogden station, car barn, and some of the passenger equipment were destroyed by fire. Replacement equipment was difficult to obtain until t ... [Read More]

Utah History To Go - Simon Bamberger
Simon Bamberger was the fourth governor of the state of Utah. Born in 1846 at Eberstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Emanuel Bamberger and Helen Fleish, he emigrated to the United States at the age of fourteen. He manufactured clothing in St. Louis before coming to Utah, where he arrived sometime in the 1870s or 1880s. He ran two small hotels and then made a fortune by investing in the Centennial Eureka Mine in Juab County as well as in other Utah and Nevada mines. He built the Salt Lake and Ogden Railway as well as the Lagoon resort in Farmington. ... [Read More]

Utah History To Go - Civil Rights Movement
Anti-black prejudice appeared in most neighborhoods as regularly as the paperboy. At the height of Germany's Nazi power in 1939, Sheldon Brewster (a Salt Lake City realtor and later Democratic speaker of the Utah House of Representatives) gathered a thousand signatures on a petition asking the Salt Lake City commission to designate a section of the city as an African American ghetto. After the commission refused to pass such blatantly racist legislation, Brewster tried to induce Blacks to voluntarily agree to sell their homes and buy into his ghetto plan. African Americans and their supporters marched on the state capitol in protest, but many real estate companies tried to achieve Brewster's goal informally by inserting "whites only" covenants in contracts until such restrictions became illegal in 1948.  Nevertheless, municipal and private swimming pools, including Ogden's Lorin Farr Park and Farmington's Lagoon, remained segregated and off-limits to African Americans until after ... [Read More]

Davis County, Utah :: Official Website
Lagoon Amusement Park and Pioneer Village And Lagoon-A-Beach Waterpark ...

Lagoon has it all! Take a wild ride on Utah's only wooden roller coaster.   Experience The Rocket's thrust into space.  Slide and splash at the Waterpark.  Stroll along the midway or visit the Old West at Pioneer Village.  Open daily Memorial Day through Labor Day and weekends mid-April through September. ... [Read More]

Utah History To Go - Suburbia and the Freeway
Because of the urgency of providing for increased traffic between Salt Lake City and Ogden, the Utah State Road Commission chose a six-mile section in south Davis County to be Utah's first highway built to interstate standards. In a ceremony in North Salt Lake in January 1958, Governor George D. Clyde launched the project by driving a bulldozer into Amasa Howard's ninety-year-old dairy barn to clear a route for the new $7.3-million segment. Utah's first section of six-lane divided interstate highway reached north to Pages Lane and was completed in 1962. The original plan did not include an interchange between Bountiful and Lagoon. Through the efforts of Centerville City officials, however, one was added at Parrish Lane to serve local residents. Hearings on the 6.4-mile segment between Pages Lane and Lagoon were held beginning in 1963, but plans were not ready for bidding for another six years. Northbound lanes on that $10.1-million section opened late in 1971 and the southbound side op ... [Read More]