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Why Go
For three years the largest military installation in the United States sat in the little valley town of Fairfield. Buchanan sent 3,500 soldiers, close to a third of the entire U.S. Army, and the town grew seventeen saloons to meet them. Almost none of it survives, so this is a museum stop rather than a ruin field: three buildings and a cemetery where about thirty graves were found with ground-penetrating radar and marked. John Carson's two-story adobe inn was the first stop south of Salt Lake City on the Overland Stage route.
Do this: Museum, historic inn, candlelight events
Family note: Living-history days are a hit
Fees and hours: stateparks.utah.gov
Build Your Day
Add to the trip: Battle Creek Falls (Hike, 22 mi) · The Y Trail (Hike, 25 mi) · Hope Campground (Camping, 25 mi) · Bells Canyon Waterfall (Hike, 26 mi)
Quick Answers
- What is there to do at Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP?
- Museum, historic inn, candlelight events
- Is Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP good for kids?
- Living-history days are a hit
- Why visit Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP?
- Because the Utah War left almost nothing else standing. The army abandoned Camp Floyd in 1861 when the Civil War called the troops east, and what remains is the Stagecoach Inn, the 1898 one-room schoolhouse, and the post cemetery, all in one small stop in Fairfield.