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Show Popular Brianhead Once Was 'Utah's Best Kept Secret' BRIAN HEAD What was once called "Utah's Best Kept Secret," Brian Head ski area is rapidly becoming one of the Wests most popular ski resorts. Located Just southeast of Parowan off 1-15, Brian Head has grown into one of the most respected winter sports centers in the Western United States. There are several popular stories on how Brian Head got its name. It was once called Monument Peak because it was used as a landmark for surveyors and expeditionists as a reference point. One story says that the wife of a U.S. Government official came to visit the area and didn't like the name Monument Peak. She went home, wrote a few letters and had the name changed to Bryan Head. Some say the name was changed by the western explorer John Wesley Powell, naming it after an official in the survey office. And others say that the name was changed in 1890 by Marian Adam Gudmandsen, a history major at the University of Utah, who named it after William Jennings Bryan who once ran for president. No one is sure just when the spelling changed from Bryan Head to Brian Head. Perhaps it was a typing error which stuck. Whatever the reason, Brian Head is rapidly becoming known as "the place to ski. When Burt Nichols, president of Brian Head Enterprises, Inc., first started in 1964, he had a T-Bar and a small warming hut. |
