St Anne's Retreat/Hatch's Camp is located 8.3 miles east from the mouth of Logan Canyon, Cache County, Utah. The camp complex consists of twenty-one buildings and structures, of which seventeen (85 percent) contribute to the historic integrity of the camp. Eleven are contributing buildings in the bungalow, Arts & Crafts, and National Park Rustic styles. These include two main lodges (or cabins), s
ix smaller cabins, a playhouse, a pool house and generator house. There are four contributing structures of stone, including a fireplace, fire pit, fountain, and a linear system of retaining walls and pathways. Two other contributing structures include the bridge and the pool. There are currently two noncontributing sheds on the property and two non-contributing gates across the bridge. All historic resources are in fair to good condition. The complex is currently being rehabilitated. Hatch's Camp is a contributing historic site with multiple resources in Logan Canyon. The camp complex is located 8.3 miles from the west boundary of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Logan Canyon, Utah. The camp was located within the area officially designated a summer homes special permit area by the
United States Forest Service (USFS) in the 1930s. The special permit was held by the family of Hezekiah Eastman Hatch, a prominent businessman from Logan, who built the first cabin in the area. Later his son, Lorenzo Boyd Hatch, and Boyd's wife Anne McQuarrie Hatch, added several buildings and used the camp as a summer retreat after they moved to New York City. Anne's sister, Hortense McQuarrie Odium, and her husband Floyd B. Odium, also lived in New York City and built cabins on the site for the use of their family. The summer camp eventually became a summer retreat, not only for the Hatches and Odiums, but numerous
friends and family. Guests included those with local ties as well as business associates, socialites, and other elites the Hatches and Odiums knew through their ties to New York and Hollywood. However, by the mid-1950s, the family had stopped using the camp. In the 1950s, along with Hortense Oldum, the Hatch family donated the lease and the improvements to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. The Roman Catholic Diocese renamed the camp St. Ann's Retreat. The camp was used both as a retreat for the Sisters of the Holy Cross working in the diocese and as a recreational camp for youth groups of all faiths. The camp was closed for repairs in 1978 and then used as a youth camp until 1987 when the church closed the facility for good due to a high rate of trespassing and vandalism. Because the camp was used only occasionally, there was plenty opportunity for trespassing. The vast majority of trespassers were Logan area teenagers seeking a thrill through "legend-tripping," or in other words, going to the site with hopes of witnessing a supernatural event. Apparently the "legend-tripping" began while the sisters were staying there, prompting
them to get dogs to alert them of intruders. Eventually because of the frequent night visitations by often intoxicated young trespassers, the sisters stopped coming to the retreat. In the early 1990s, the Catholic Church sold the lease to a group of several families who fixed up the camp as a private camp again. Unfortunately the vandals kept coming and the families would show up at the camp only to find doors and windows broken, and their possessions burned. They eventually gave up.
