Last Saturday, my wife and I took a little driving tour to our neighbor valley to the east. Cache Valley (which is located in the appropriately named Cache County...) is just over the mountain range from us. For those of you who are not familiar with Cache Valley, let me just say, it's beautiful...just beautiful.
We drove into the valley from the west. Most people enter the valley from the south, but some of us--the lucky few--get to see the valley from a different perspective. We drove through the marshland and did some shopping on the north side of Logan. We then drove through Logan, passed the farmland and expanding suburbs, and left through Sardine Canyon.
There is so much to appreciate about Logan and Cache Valley. If you like cooler temperatures, you'll love the place. Of course, cooler means for all seasons. It can be downright brutal in the winter. I know--I spent one winter in Logan and as I walked to class at Utah State University and crested Old Main Hill in the mornings, that freezing air blasting from Logan Canyon goes right through you--no matter how many coats you wear.
If there's another knock on the county, it's the air. There's something about that valley that traps bad air. That happens in Salt Lake and Provo and Ogden and even where we live, but it happens a lot in Logan and it seems when it happens in Logan, it's worse.
But the cold and the bad air are only a few negatives in a valley full of pluses. When we decided to move north, I knew we weren't going to end up in Cache Valley, but I'm so glad we're close enough that a short drive on a mountain road can get us there.
Cache Valley...absolutely gorgeous.
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