Logan Canyon Scenic Byway
Wood Camp Campground, UT

This shaded, riverside campground has seven campsites. During the 1870s and 1880s, timber cut from this hollow provided railroad ties, telegraph poles, and hundreds of cords of firewood for use in lime kilns in the lower part of the canyon. These kilns processed the limestone and provided the mortar used in the construction of the Mormon Temple in Logan. Due to its location, Wood Camp also served as a halfway station for weary loggers in need of food and shelter as they made their way back and forth through the canyon.

The powerful work of avalanches shaped the expansive basin that opens just beyond the Wood Camp turnoff. Look for misplaced sections of soil and scattered rock which the avalanches carried down-slope with them.

This location is also the trailhead to the Jardine Juniper, an old, gnarled juniper thought to be 1500 years old and one of the oldest living juniper trees on earth.