Winnemucca to Wells to Brigham City

 Leaving Winnemucca, Nevada, at about 10 in the morning, we wandered 186 miles east on I 80. Eventually we found the town of Wells, Nevada, and Mountain Shadows RV Park. We stayed here years ago and chose it this time for purely nostalgia reasons. Near as we can figure, our last visit was 30 years ago and....the park has changed some...

Seems as though it's a little smaller now....

But the pay phone is still there, and in operation from the look of it!

And the view of the neighboring mountains is still spectacular.

Today, Saturday the 1st of May, we left Wells and headed northeast, eventually ending up in the town of Brigham City, Utah. This is a very comfortable town, clean and quiet from what we could tell. There are many, many residences dating from the turn of the century to today. It's apparently becoming a bedroom community for Ogden and SLC.

Brigham City is also know for it's peach orchards. This is the wrong time of year for peaches, but we saw signs all over for peach pie, peach preserves, and peach ice cream! It's also home to the Worlds Greatest Wild Bird Refuge.

The Refuge is west of town several miles and is adjacent to the Great Salt Lake. We hope to visit tomorrow as we'll be here two nights. We arrived in Brigham City via a scenic route that curved north of the Great Salt Lake. Nevada 233 bails off of I 80 at the (town of) Oasis intersection, and heads north through high desert to Montello, Rosette, and Park Valley. The two lane road turns into Utah 30 and meets I 84 near Snowville.

Nevada 233 at about mile marker 75:

After 208 miles, we arrived in Brigham City and settled into the Golden Spike RV Park, and site 6. It's not a bad park, certainly well maintained, but narrow and hard to maneuver around in. It's located in an area of apartments along a main highway, so we expect it to be gobbled up in the near future.

This is Utah, so the LDS Temple dominates the skyline.

One other thing dominates the town, but I was unable to get a photo. Every couple of blocks through town we found a drive-in fast food place. No big deal, except every parking place of every joint was full! Must be that everyone goes out for a burger on Saturday night! There must have been a dozen places with a couple of dozen patrons at each one!

We're catching up on laundry and rest today and tomorrow, with a short day trip planned tomorrow. 

We'll be back!