MORMON PIONEER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA (MPNHA)
Welcome to the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area!
U.S. Highway 89
Utah Highway 12 - National Scenic Byway and All-American Road
Utah Highway 24 - The Boulder Loop
U.S. Highway 89
Utah Highway 12 - National Scenic Byway and All-American Road
Utah Highway 24 - The Boulder Loop
The artisans and business owners inside the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area are proud to show their wares and shops. Handmade treasures include porcelain dolls, antique furniture reproductions, contemporary woodcraft, kiln and pit fired pottery, appliquéd western clothing, carved wooden caricatures, hand-tooled boots and saddles, unique jewelry, Native American crafts, fine art, and much more.
The businesses inside the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offer a delightful blend of art galleries and artisan studios, heritage lodging, western adventures, historic sites, fun celebrations, fine antiques and collectibles, and delicious indigenous foods.
The Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area contains five heritage districts: Little Denmark, Sevier Valley, The Headwaters, Boulder Loop, and Under the Rim.
Wherever you choose to go along U.S. Highway 89, Utah Highway 12 - National Scenic Byway and All American Road, and/or Utah Highway 24 - the Boulder Loop, the people of Utah will be there to help make your trip enjoyable!
The businesses inside the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offer a delightful blend of art galleries and artisan studios, heritage lodging, western adventures, historic sites, fun celebrations, fine antiques and collectibles, and delicious indigenous foods.
The Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area contains five heritage districts: Little Denmark, Sevier Valley, The Headwaters, Boulder Loop, and Under the Rim.
Wherever you choose to go along U.S. Highway 89, Utah Highway 12 - National Scenic Byway and All American Road, and/or Utah Highway 24 - the Boulder Loop, the people of Utah will be there to help make your trip enjoyable!
OVERVIEW OF THE HERITAGE DISTRICTS & LINKS TO SOME OF THE TOWNS
Little Denmark
Little Denmark where the influence of Scandinavian Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young to settle the area surrounds you. Masterful Scandinavian woodworking and stained glass-skills are reflected in many of the marvelous local bed and breakfast inns. Festivals such as the Scandinavian Festival in Ephraim and the Mormon Miracle Pageant at the Mormon Temple in Manti offer a rich local flavor. Artisan studios and gift shops are waiting for your visit to downtowns filled with buildings listed on the National Historic Register.
Ephraim Fairview Fountain Green Gunnison Manti Moroni Mt. Pleasant Spring City Sterling Sevier Valley
Sevier Valley is located just south of Little Denmark. Here heritage is tied to the rich landscape where farmers and ranchers follow the ancient Native American tradition of living off the land. Whether you are visiting Burns Saddlery in Salina where cowboys have shopped for saddles, boots, and Western wear for 100 years; listening to the bark of the auctioneer at a local livestock auction; sitting around a campfire after a Dutch oven dinner enjoying tales of Butch Cassidy; or licking an ice cream cone at Ideal Dairy in Richfield, you will never be far from the land these rural folk love and nurture.
Fish Lake Richfield Salina Sevier County Under the Rim
The Under The Rim Heritage district is named for its location beneath the redrock rims of the Colorado plateau. Hollywood fell in love with the area and filmed
Western like "Gunsmoke" here for decades. Kanab has also become one of Utah's burgeoning arts communities where shops and galleries display fine art and photography as well as Western memorabilia, and some of the highest quality Native American crafts and jewelry in the region. Kanab Duck Creek |
The Headwaters
Communities along the Headwaters Heritage District are as diverse as their individual traditions, but tied together by the common rivers and tributaries which make the land in Southern Utah blossom. You will find tales of lost gold and tiny towns where the spirit of hard working miners endures. You will hear about settlers who crossed snow-packed mountains walking on handmade quilts to bring supplies to their starving families. In Long Valley, residents welcome the chance to tell of their forefathers who faithfully lived the United Order, an early Mormon lifestyle based in sharing community resources...and everywhere the water runs from the mountains, to the streams, to the rivers and to the valleys.
Marysvale Junction Kingston Circleville Panguitch Panguitch Lake Garfield County Piute County Utah Highway 12 -
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