The first families came over from the Swiss cantons in the 1850s, drawn by the Wasatch Valley's resemblance to home. They brought their dairying, their architecture, and their eye for an alpine meadow. The town that grew here — Midway — still carries those traces: chalet rooflines, geranium-filled window boxes, a Main Street that wouldn't look out of place in Interlaken.
Each autumn, the town celebrates Swiss Days — a two-day festival of food, music, and heritage crafts that has been running for more than seventy years.
They came looking for the valley they'd left. They found it.