Train, plane and car museums in Utah
Locomotives, aircraft, classic cars and the stations and hangars that hold them.
15 museums on this list, checked against their own websites in October 2026.
This Is The Place Heritage Park
More than 450 acres, with a Heritage Village of settler homes and shops, costumed interpreters, a replica train and a pony carousel.
Hill Aerospace Museum
Free, with more than 70 historic aircraft and aerospace vehicles, an SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 stealth fighter among them. No base pass needed.
Golden Spike National Historical Park
Where the last spike of the transcontinental railroad was driven in 1869. Replica locomotives Jupiter and No. 119 are moved out to the Last Spike Site each day.
By region
Salt Lake County 3
- Discovery Gateway Children's MuseumSalt Lake City KidsA 60,000 square foot children's museum inside The Gateway with more than 20 hands-on exhibits. Kids can climb into a real Life Flight helicopter, take the wheel of a semi-truck cab, dig for fossils, run a child-sized city and watch the Stillson River Railroad.
- Land Cruiser Heritage MuseumSalt Lake City Trains and carsA museum devoted to one truck, the Toyota Land Cruiser, laid out by generation from the 55 and 60 series through the 70s, 100s and 200s, plus Prados, related 'cousin' vehicles and engine displays. Specific pieces include a 1979 FJ56 fire truck and a 1988 FJ62/HZJ79 hybrid. No appointment needed.
- This Is The Place Heritage ParkSalt Lake City PioneerA state park of more than 450 acres where Heritage Village has settler homes and shops, costumed interpreters and hands-on pioneer activities, plus a replica train, a pony carousel and farm animals. The grounds also hold the This Is The Place Monument, dedicated in 1947, the Walk of Pioneer Faiths and the Pioneer Children's Memorial. Entering the park is free; the village experiences need a paid pass.
Davis, Weber and Morgan 3
- Hill Aerospace MuseumHill Air Force Base Military FreeMore than 70 historic aircraft and aerospace vehicles at a museum just off base by the North/Roy Gate, so no base pass is needed. The collection includes a B-17, an SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 stealth fighter, and there are flight simulators and scavenger hunts. The museum suggests planning one to two hours.
- Museums at Union StationOgden Trains and carsOgden's historic train depot holds four museums under one ticket: the Utah State Railroad Museum, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum and the Utah State Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It also has the Wattis-Dumke Model Railroad and two galleries, the Gallery at the Station and the Myra Powell Gallery, that put up new exhibits each month.
- Utah State Railroad Museum (Union Station)Ogden Trains and carsHoused at Ogden's Union Station, with Union Pacific Northern 833 and the X-26 turbine engine, plus a restored Red Cross hospital car, a railroad post office car and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games cauldron car. Indoors, the Wattis-Dumke model railroad follows the transcontinental line past spots like the Lucin Trestle and Weber Canyon. One ticket also covers the Browning firearms, classic car and cowboy and western heritage museums in the same building.
Utah County 3
- Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park and MuseumFairfield MilitaryThe U.S. Army set up Camp Floyd near Fairfield in 1858 and stayed three years before the troops were reassigned for the Civil War. The state park covers the years when soldiers, Mormon pioneers, stagecoach travelers and Pony Express riders met here, with a museum, three historic structures including the Stagecoach Inn, and a cemetery. Kids can do the Junior Ranger program, and the park holds musket and cannon reenactments.
- Museum of Natural CuriosityLehi KidsA hands-on children's museum at Thanksgiving Point with more than 400 exhibits spread across areas like the Rainforest, Kidopolis, Water Works and the Discovery Garden, plus a rotating Innovation Gallery. Newer additions are a Thomas and Friends train exhibit and Teamwork in the Wee Jungle, a play area for kids 3 and under. Tickets are sold per person, and members get in free.
- Orem Heritage Museum at SCERAOrem History FreeA free museum of Orem history in the historic building just south of the SCERA Center, with about 2,000 artifacts. Exhibits run from a coal stove, butter churn and victrola to a blacksmith shop, agricultural displays, military displays from World War I through Korea, and Geneva Steel and SCERA memorabilia, and there is a working model railroad diorama of 1940s Orem.
Park City and Heber 1
Cache and Box Elder 1
Tooele and the West Desert 1
Central Utah 1
Southern Utah 1
Eastern Utah 1
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Photos, left to right and top to bottom: Beneathtimp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Xboxtravis7992, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
