Welcome to Cache Valley
Located 80 miles north of Salt Lake City, Logan is the cultural center of northern Utah's Cache Valley. Logan is home to 43,000 people and offers a wide variety of shops and restaurants, more than two dozen parks, riverside nature trails, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a skate park, two golf courses, a summer gardener's market, a public zoo, health and fitness clubs, a well-equipped library, fare-free bus service and a central historic district.
Local events and attractions include the annual Summerfest Art and Jazz Festival, the Cache Cruise-In, one of the largest antique car shows in the West, and the Top of Utah Marathon, ranked as one of the four "best-kept secrets" in the country by Runners World magazine. The community is family-friendly, and children of all ages can experience the valley's Western heritage through hands-on activities at the American West Heritage Center, or sample locally produced cheese, ice cream, cookies, honey or hand-dipped chocolates at tourist outlets. The Eccles Ice Center, used as a training arena for international Olympic figure, speed, and hockey skating teams during the 2002 Salt Lake games, offers Olympic-quality skating year-round. Gardeners who like the smell of flowers on their hands can find hands-on activities at Utah State's 94-acre Utah Botanical Center. The gardens, located an hour south of Logan, teach residents about water-wise landscapes, native plants and gardening skills. And for family history buffs, the Logan Tabernacle houses the second largest genealogy library in Utah.
Cache Valley offers cultural opportunities usually found only in larger metropolitan areas. The locally-based Utah Festival Opera Company is ranked among the top 20 summer opera festivals in the world by Money Magazine and welcomes talented performers from around the world for a summer series of grand opera, light operettas and musicals. The Cache Valley Center for the Arts brings Broadway musicals and country bands to the historic Ellen Eccles Theatre, while comedy, musicals, drama and farce are served up at the charmingly restored Old Lyric Repertory Theatre. The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University houses one of the largest permanent art collections in the Intermountain West, changing gallery exhibits and Native American artwork. Local associations and the university sponsor jazz, folk, and classical music concerts, a Visiting Artist Series, an annual lecture series, symposiums, educational tours and life-enrichment courses. Utah Public Radio is broadcast from the USU campus and offers a variety of lectures, and folk, classical, opera and jazz music.