Tintic Mining Museum — Attraction in Eureka

Definitely worth a stop if you'd like to know more about the area's mining history. The small museum is packed with era items, both directly related to mining and also related to life in the towns that supported them. Be sure to check out the old mining equipment and machinery behind the museum. The building just to the south houses a mocked up school room, sheriff's office (with the town's old jail out back), one-room house, and more mining and era paraphernalia. The docents were fun, knowledgeable, kind, and plenty patient as kids peppered them...

Very cool place! Lots and lots of artifacts to look at, the historic pictures are all very clear and blown up so you can really see them which is cool, and the guy that runs the place was beyond nice! He even opened the place early when he saw us pull up and gave us lots of cool information about everything in here. I definitely recommend coming here and dropping a few bucks into the...

More than a mining museum for sure. In addition to some great rock displays, there are so many interesting things tucked in corners and on shelves that you could spend hours looking around. The owner was charming and entertaining and knew the history of...