We headed to the west desert in search of bald eagles on Saturday (2/5/2017) and decided to check out this little town in Tooele County called Ophir. It's a little ghost town about 54 miles west of Salt Lake City. The town is nestled in a canyon. Not much there, really. While it looked to have some full-time residents (only three homes looked to be shoveled after the last snow storm), the only road through this little town was noticeably empty. In fact, we tried making our way up the canyon road, but they stopped plowing the road after a stretch making it difficult to continue in the slushy snow. While some of the buildings have been torn down and replaced with new homes, it looked like some of the older buildings were being restored. And I believe you can schedule tours at a mining museum, too, during the spring and summer. Something I would like to do another weekend.
Ophir is pretty. And quiet. Perhaps a little creepy. But I would love it if they turned some of the older little one room shacks into rentals where people could spend the weekend ghost hunting. That would be pretty cool.
Sadly we didn't see any bald eagles.
Ophir, Utah - Population 40 as of 2013
View on our way down the canyon
The cemetery sits on a steep hill on your way into town
This was taken at the edge of the cemetery overlooking a cliff
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