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Utah’s OddStops connect immense practical retail, literary collecting, and roadside architecture carved directly into the landscape. Smith & Edwards — Farr West/Ogden spreads workwear, hardware, sporting goods, farm supplies, household items, and surplus across its Ogden-area store and outdoor yard. In Provo, Moon’s Rare Books places rare books and manuscripts among artifacts, art, and movie props in a museum-like shop. South of Moab, Hole N” the Rock clusters three stores, metal sculpture, mining displays, a zoo, and tours around a sandstone home. These destinations provide three very different entry points before the full Utah list below.
UTMidway, UT
A century-rooted Midway dairy farm where the creamery store’s cheese, curds and ice cream share the visit with scheduled hayride tours to calves and a robotic milking barn.
Heber Valley Artisan Cheese pairs an active creamery and farm store with scheduled dairy tours, tastings and cheesemaking classes at a long-running family farm.
UTMoab, UT
Twelve miles south of Moab, three adjoining shops cluster around a 5,000-square-foot home carved into red sandstone, with short house tours, metal sculptures, mining displays and a small zoo sharing the roadside property.
Hole N” the Rock combines three retail components with a carved sandstone home tour, outdoor sculpture, historic displays and a small zoo at one San Juan County roadside stop.
UTProvo, UT
A working Provo rare-book shop where first editions and antique religious texts are offered among glass-case manuscripts, literary artifacts, art and movie props that make the room feel museum-like.
Moon’s Rare Books is an active buying-and-selling bookshop whose first editions and antique texts share display space with manuscripts, artifacts, art and film props.
UTNorth Salt Lake, UT
Mrs. Cavanaugh’s North Salt Lake headquarters combines chocolate and ice-cream retail with a 30,000-square-foot working candy factory and appointment-only tours through the family business’s production story.
Mrs. Cavanaugh’s headquarters joins a chocolate-and-ice-cream store to an active candy factory offering scheduled, appointment-only tours.
UTOgden, UT
The original Smith & Edwards destination, where a landmark rocket-topped sign points toward an immense general store and outdoor surplus yard filled with everything from workwear and hardware to sporting, farm and household goods.
Smith & Edwards combines destination-scale general-store retail with decades of military-surplus history and a sprawling outdoor surplus yard at its original northern Utah property.