Engelmann Spruce - Solitude Nordic Center & Silver Lake Information Center - Brighton, UT, USA
N 40° 36.203 W 111° 35.081
12T E 450533 N 4494894
This Tree Growth Ring Display is an Engelmann Spruce, located inside the Solitude Nordic Center & Silver Lake Information Center, near the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon at Brighton, Utah.
Waymark Code: WMFHNM
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2012
Views: 10
Just inside the entrance to the Silver Lake Information Center, along with other area information, is this large tree ring display. Information on the display relates the following:
This Engelmann Spruce made its home in Little Cottonwood Canyon. It lived for 376 years. Can you count the rings? Can you find the year you were born? If this tree could talk to us, imagine the stories it would tell!
The following historical events are listed, pinpointing the tree ring associated with that event:
1620 - Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1620 - Telescope invented
mid 1600's - Massive loss of Native American population through disease associated with European contact.
mid 1600's - Ute, Shoshone, and Piute Indians occupy Wasatch Front
1725 - smallpox inoculation introduced
1776 - Declaration of Independence
1776 - Escalante-Dominquez Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California
1793 - cotton gin invented
1818 - Peter Ogden entered Utah to explore the upper Utah region
1823 - Etienne Provost French-Canadian who became a fur trapper in Utah
1824 - Jim Bridger was a mountain man who explored the Great Salt Lake... he thought he discoved the Pacific Ocean
1832-1904 - John Wesley Powell worked for the Smithsonian Institute to explore the Green and Colorado Rivers
1847 - Brigham Young enters the Salt Lake Valley
1848 - Cricket Plague hordes of crickets swarmed over the pioneer's fields. The crops were saved and the seagull was made the state bird of Utah.
1860-1861 - The Pony Express by a system of relays the mail could be carried from Missouri to California in ten days.
1869 - Transcontinental Railroad the two railroads met at Promontory Summit in Utah
1872 - First National Park (Yellowstone) established.
1873 - Avalanche destroys half the town of Alta, Utah
1891 - First National Forest reserves established.
1907 - Last grizzly bear seen in the Wasatch Mountains.
1954 - Fire scarred this tree
The Silver Lake Information Center, which in winter is the ticket and rental office for the Solitude Nordic Center, is located at the trailhead to the interpretive trail around Silver Lake. During the summer months the US Forest Service operates the Information Center over weekends and on holidays between 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Both the Information Center and walkway are wheelchair accessible.
Location Name and/or Address:
Solitude Nordic Center & Silver Lake Information Center is on the right hand side of the road at the beginning of the Brighton Loop.
Tree Species: Engelmann Spruce
Indoors/Outdoors: Indoors
Entry Fee or Requirements: No
Availablility: Has specific hours
Website: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Visit the location and take a photo of the Tree Growth Rings. If you have more information about the tree or circumstance, please share it in your visit log.