Bathers at Garfield Resort West of Salt Lake City in the 1880's. Black Rock, now situated near the Saltair Marina, is in the background. Garfield Resort was built near the town of Garfield, Utah, a mining town west of Salt Lake City. From 1881 to 1893 Garfield Beach was the most famous and finest recreation resort on the shores of Great Salt Lake, with its railroad station, lunch stand, restaurant, bath houses and pier leading to the dance pavilion, and with the pioneer steamboat "City of Corinne" exhibited at anchor. Lake Point was located 1 1/2 miles west. A three story hotel erected there by Dr. Jeter Clinton became a stopping place for Overland stages. The boulder used for this shaft was taken from "Old Buffalo Ranch" one half mile west.

A Look Back: Recreation on the Great Salt Lake

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First Published Feb 03 2012 07:08 am • Last Updated Feb 03 2012 02:22 pm

The Salt Lake Tribune occasionally presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. This installment shows resorts and recreation along the Great Salt Lake.

Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback. Previous installments showed:

Utah’s small towns • http://bit.ly/w971Oi

Park City • http://bit.ly/yhcPsx

Scenes from around Utah in the first half of the 20th century • http://bit.ly/zhYh3V

Construction of the Salt Lake Temple and SLC in the 1800s • http://bit.ly/wC64sn

Past University of Utah football bowl games • http://bit.ly/yZmonI

Scenic Utah photos from the 1930s-1960s • http://bit.ly/s23YcC

Bands in Utah from 1870-1927 • http://bit.ly/vYZTfu

Utahns in the armed forces during World War II • http://bit.ly/ud24Kt

The Hill Climbing Automobile Contest, a 1907 Salt Lake City car race • http://bit.ly/vCGkzz

Brighton in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/sqzAGx

Saltair • http://bit.ly/rLAGUG

Utahns in the military from the ‘40s and ‘50s • http://bit.ly/tjX9Zn

Salt Lake City’s baseball park in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/rtrkih

Utah college life from the 1930s to 1960s • http://bit.ly/rKskme

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