Sitting there they could see the whole world
spread out until it reached the sky,
and whatever there was all the world over
was with them in Galleons Lap.
Today we are celebrating. Wyatt and I made a giant step toward accomplishing one of our goals we made before we were even married.
When Wyatt and I were dating we spent 4th of July weekend at my grandfather’s cabin at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon. We went on a hike and stopped to talk about cabins–what we would want when we had a cabin someday. It was that conversation that first steered us toward the “getting married” talk. We decided if we were going to talk about owning real estate together, we should first talk about spending our life together 😀
One of the cabins we looked at.
We’ve always wanted a cabin, and started looking even before we owned our first house. We’ve fallen in love with several properties, even had offers on two. But we’ve never moved forward–there was always something holding us back.
Today we closed on Galleons Lap, a property in Weber Canyon just outside Oakley, Utah–just 45 minutes from our front door. We bought land without a cabin because we decided that a cabin wasn’t really reasonable at this point in our lives, but we’ve watched land values sky rocket the past couple years. We wanted to own something–especially in Weber Canyon, before we were priced out of the market.
Why Weber Canyon? Because it is within an hour of Salt Lake, 15 minutes of a huge reservoir for fishing and boating, has a river running through it for fishing and playing, and it’s not a water shed (unlike almost all other canyons within range of Salt Lake) which means you can take dogs & horses up there as well as 4-wheel and snow mobile. There are several smaller lakes and streams in the area, including Smith & Morehouse which is just another mile up the canyon from our property. And it’s all nestled in a small canyon above the tiny town of Oakley, with all the charm of “Kens Cash” grocery–more of a general store, and the annual Oakley Rodeo, which Wyatt and I went to last year, and have tickets to this year. Basically this place has it all!
Our lot is at the very top of a subdivision called Beaver Springs, in a “neighborhood” called “Little Dipper.” It’s on the very top, and has views over the whole canyon and down into the valley below. It’s a steep lot, but flattens out at the top. Behind our property is a giant 40 acre plot that can’t be subdivided, so no one will ever be above us. There is one “neighbor” just north of us, who actually lives in Tennessee (we did our research) and only comes out twice a year–4th of July and Christmas, so it is pretty secluded. At some point we hope to build a cabin, but in the mean time we have a place to throw up our tent and camp for weekend fishing trips.
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