Category - Pioneers

Family Search Discovery Center

On the first floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building there is a Family Search Discovery Center...

In the early 1990s a tunnel was being dug in Salt Lake City. The excavators uncovered the remnant...

Do you know where Utah founder Brigham Young is buried? We didn’t. Then on our tour of...

We love the Oregon Trail Center in Montpelier, Idaho. This is a great stop just a little north of...

The Logan Tabernacle is open for visits most of the time during the summer. This beautiful building...

The Escalante Heritage Center is located just east of the town of Escalante on Highway 12. There is...

Pipe Spring National Monument is an LDS history site that is run by the National Park Service...

There is a small museum in Hurricane that tells the history of the town and holds a few interesting...

While at Zion National Park in southern Utah, we decided to check out a ghost town. Our boys are...

The Jacob Hamblin Home is one of four LDS Church Historical sites in St. George along with the...

The Brigham Young Winter Home in St. George stands in stark contrast to some of the other LDS...

We like to visit old LDS Church sites and there are 5 near St. George that we visited on our recent...

We always enjoy visiting This is the Place Heritage Park. We visited This is the Place Heritage...

We love spending time on Temple Square. The grounds are beautiful and it is filled with tons of...

The Deuel Cabin located in the plaza between the Church History Museum and the Family History...

The LDS Church History Museum has reopened after a year-long closure during which it was entirely...

Weber County is where many of my relatives settled after they crossed the plains and ended up in...

I have a lot of family from Nephi, Utah, and many of the pioneers that settled the place belong to...

We accidentally found a new historical adventure in South Jordan today. We were driving to the...

The Mormon Pioneer Trail technically runs for 1300 miles from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City...