West — open filings

Open to visit in Utah

27 dossiers in Utah carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

27 open dossiers2 counties coveredGrafton — deepest file

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Grafton

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Silver Reef

The only place silver was found in sandstone—the 1876 camp.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Saltair

The palace on the dead lake—three Saltairs, all burned or flooded.

2 claims · 2 legends→

St. Ann's Retreat

The Logan Canyon retreat with the most debunked legend in Utah—the nuns who never were.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fremont Island

The Great Salt Lake island where a grave-robber was exiled.

2 claims · 2 legends→

The Great Saltair

Great Salt Lake venue with television-investigation claims.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Park City

Park City, Utah

The silver camp that became a ski town—the mines are still under Main Street.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Douglas

Salt Lake City, Utah

The 1862 fort built to watch the Mormons—the cemetery’s dead.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Timpanogos Cave

American Fork, Utah

The cave where the sleeping princess lies—the heart of the legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Mountain Meadows

Enterprise, Utah

September 11, 1857—the wagon train the Mormon militia destroyed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

25th Street Ogden

The street that Al Capone reportedly used—where the tunnels run.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Blind Frog Ranch

Roosevelt, Utah

Television-featured ranch with unusual-light claims.

Sego

The coal town that drowned in its own water table—and kept its stone store.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Beehive House

Salt Lake City, Utah

Brigham Young’s 1854 home—the governor’s mansion of Deseret.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Geological Feature

Upheaval Dome

Unusual folded-rock structure in Canyonlands National Park.

Frisco

The wildest camp in Utah—the Horn Silver Mine town.

Golden Spike National Historical Park

Promontory Summit, Utah

Where the rails met—May 10, 1869.

Goblin Valley

Green River, Utah

The goblin hoodoos—the valley of stone creatures.

Cove Fort

Cove Fort, Utah

The 1867 stone fort—the Mormon way station.

Tooele / Mercur

The gold camp that died twice—the cemetery on the hill.

Bingham Canyon

Bingham Canyon, Utah

The pit that ate a town—the largest excavation on Earth.

Topaz

The desert camp—11,000 in the Sevier basin.

Incarceration Site

Topaz Relocation Center

Historic camp remains northwest of Delta.

Massacre Memorial

Mountain Meadows Massacre Site

Enterprise, Utah

Southern Utah landscape of the 1857 emigrant massacre.

Castle Gate Cemetery

Cemetery associated with the 1924 mining disaster.

Joy Townsite

Foundation and equipment remains of a mining settlement.

Former Hospital

Old Tooele Hospital

Former hospital reused for medical-history exhibits and staged horror.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026