Weber Canyon, Canyon in Wasatch Range, Utah, United States

Weber Canyon is a 40-mile (64 km) canyon in the Wasatch Range near Ogden, Utah, through which the Weber River flows west toward the Great Salt Lake; 13 tributary creeks feed it. Its slopes are tan, beige and reddish-brown rock and soil with layered outcrops, dotted with dark green trees and low grayish-blue shrubs above the riverbank. A long timber trestle bridge on wooden posts carries a Union Pacific train across the streambed.

Shoshone and Ute peoples camped and traveled through the valley long before European explorers arrived, using the Weber River tributaries as reliable water sources. In the 1800s, the canyon became a key passage for fur traders, pioneers heading west, and eventually the first transcontinental railroad.

The canyon is named for John Henry Weber, a fur trapper who worked the region in the early 1800s. In 1825, near today's Mountain Green, Peter Skene Ogden's Hudson's Bay Company trappers met Johnson Gardner's American party; Ogden kept the dispute from becoming an international incident, though Antoine Godin left with Gardner.

Interstate 84 follows the Weber River through the canyon, passing Devil's Slide and the 1000 Mile Tree site. The canyon stretches 40 miles (64 km) between the Wasatch Range slopes near Ogden and the river's exit toward the Great Salt Lake. Pull-offs along the highway allow stops to view the rock outcrops and the trestle crossings.

Along the old overland route through the canyon stands the Thousand Mile Tree, a pine marking the point exactly 1,000 miles (about 1,600 km) from Omaha along the original trail. The tree standing there today was planted in 1982, because the original marker used by 19th-century travelers no longer exists.