Area Attractions
Area Attractions
- Broadbent's: The oldest privately owned department store in America. An editor of Sunset Magazine says, "Broadbents department store in Lehi, Utah is one of the most unique shopping experiences in America today."
- Cabela's: Now open near Thanksgiving Point.
- Camp Floyd in Fairfield: In 1858-61 was in Utah's third largest city and housed the largest and best trained military unit in the Union - sent to Utah by the Congress of the United States to quell the rebellious Mormons. Also, the army in Utah, was a Southern strategy to weaken the North at the beginning of the Civil War.
- Historic Railroad Museum: Built in 1872 this is the oldest standing original RR station in Utah. Authentically restored and equipped. Was an original dormitory station.
- John Hutchings Museum of Natural History: Internationally recognized collections of minerals, shells, fossils, pioneer displays, and a memorial to veterans of all wars, that involved Lehi residents.
- Jordan River Parkway: A nice scenic path for bikers, walkers, and joggers, that leads from Utah Lake all the way to the Great Salt Lake.
- Lehi Hotel and Smith School: "The finest sample hotel in the territory" said the Deseret News when the hotel opened in 1887, when Denver and Rio Grande Railroad connected Salt Lake and Denver with the same gauge of rail. In 1865 Sarah Liddiard Smith School was equipped with benches, slates and chalk. In the evening, the benches were pushed aside and Mrs. Smith rented the two rooms as hotel rooms with folks sleeping on the floor.
- Lehi Legacy Center: A center for recreation, seniors and civic activities, builit at half the cost of similar public buildings.
- Lehi Main Steet: Utah County's only city with a two lane Main Street. Historic buildings stand as they did in the hey days of the 1800's.
- Lehi Roller Mills: A cooperative built by Lehi stockholders in 1906. Purchased by George Robinson in 1906 and operated by his family ever since, resulting in eight generations of the family operating flour mills in England, Deleware and Utah. One of only a few operating family owned flour mills left in America, this mill produces specialty flours sold throughout Western America.
- Lehi's Uptown ZCMI Center:The largest still standing ZCMI complex in existence. Cooperative buying and selling created havoc and dissent in financial and business interests in all Mormon communities in the 1870's.
- Pony Express and Stagecoach: Operated just three miles west of Lehi. It was the latest technology in communications and transportation in 1860. Tied California and other western states to the Union - against slavery.
- Thanksgiving Point: Over 550 acres of gardens, shops, museums and theaters, depicting the Ashton's thanksgiving and gratitude of the world, in memory of what the world did for the family, as a result of WordPerfect successes in the 1980's.
- Utah Sugar Company Mill Site: Built in less than a year in 1891. It was financed for $400,000 by the LDS Church. Lehi's central factory received shredded sugar beets from six satellite factories by pumping through wooden piped in a solution of lime water.
For more information about Lehi area attractions, visit the Utah Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau.
