Enterprise, Utah - Attractions

Enterprise Reservoir provides year around water for the farms in the Escalante Valley. The dam was completed about 1910. It was made with rocks, hand carried and placed by the pioneers. The dam is about eighty feet tall, twenty two feet thick at the bottom, and eight feet thick at the top.
Enterprise Reservoir has a great area for boating, fishing, hunting, hiking, climbing, hunting, mining, camping, site seeing, and arrowhead collecting. The upper and lower reservoirs are well-stocked with trout and are great places for family fun.
The surrounding area is filled with many places to see signs from the past. Many indian and pioneer artifacts have been located here.

Historic Mountain Meadow Massacre

The Mountain Meadows Association - Includes family members of the victims, historians, and others. They give the background, histories, and a list of some of the victims and surviving children.

The Old Spanish Trail monument marks the spot where a group of travelers took a shortcut to California by heading west from this place. The group ended up near Death Valley, California in December 1849 and barely lived to tell about it. The other part of the group continued south through Holt Canyon. Holt canyon is on The Old Spanish Trail and drains into the Escalante Valley on the southern edge of the Great Basin.

• The Dominguez-Escalante Expeditions Journal:

Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776

• I Walked to Zion:
- Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail

• The Gathering of Zion:
- The Story of the Mormon Trail

• National Geographic's Guide to:
- Lewis and Clark Trail

• Hiking Historic Trails
- Utah's Favorite Hiking Trails

• Scenic Driving - Travel guides
- Scenic Driving in Utah

• Historical reading
- The Old Spanish Trail

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