Cache Playground

              THE CACHE PLAYGROUND
Note:  The fourth of a series of Know Your Forest News Stories
contributed to the Journal by local Forest Officers.
Of all of the major resources of the Cache National Forest,
recreation, though not measurable in dollars and cents, is perhaps the one feature of the Cache Forest about which the largest
number of the people of Cache Valley are familiar.  Every day
in the year, even in the dead of winter, cars travel up and down
the Logan Canyon road, laden with townsfolk and travellers from
afar, all of whom seek the pleasure of the mountains.  In the
winter months fires burn constantly in the fireplaces of summer
homes for the owners who wish to enjoy the holidays in a truly
holiday environment.  In the summer, every shady nook and crany
in Logan Canyon is used as a rendezvous for vacationists and for
picnickers.  A stranger passing through Logan Canyon on a holiday
in mid summer would surely think that Cache Valley had moved to
the mountains.
LARGE NUMBERS IN LOGAN CANYON
Early last year a register was placed under the first
bridge in Logan Canyon to count the number of cars that passed
through the canyon.  A report was compiled by Ranger H. I. Rice
this winter in which the following significant figures appeared:
There were 79,100 through cars - cars bound for Bear Lake from
Logan via the Garden City road or cars coming to Logan from Bear
Lake.  During the summer season 14,500 Boy and Girl Scouts camped