Cache Valley is a jewel located in northern Utah and extends into southern Idaho. For many years, I called it home and even now, when I drive through Sardine Canyon and see this spectacular panorama before me, I get homesick. Cache Valley will always be “home” to me.

In the early 19th century the valley was inhabited by Shoshone and other Native Americans. It was also the site of annual gatherings of the mountain men who inhabited the area. They used the valley as a place to store furs for trade and to meet for trade and exchange of information. The valley takes its name from the French word cache, meaning hidden, due to the mountain men who kept some of their stock of pelts in the valley to prepare for the gatherings.

The valley is encircled by the Bear River mountains, the northernmost extension of the Wasatch range and, to the east, the beautiful Wellsville mountains (in Utah) and Bannock Range (in Idaho).