Public Access On Weber River Hinges On Pioneer Log Drives

On a spring day in 1877, a man named George Carter drowned while pushing railroad ties down Utah’s upper Weber River. Carter’s memorial sits atop a bluff overlooking the river near Oakley, offering a testament to pioneers’ persistence and willingness to risk everything to build a new civilization in the West’s valleys, mountains and deserts. The chunk of engraved granite also helps prove that stretch of the Weber was once a navigable “highway of commerce.” If logs made it down the river, stream...

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