The country store Farr West
The region's country and surplus store, at the parcel
Smith and Edwards, the country store that sits in Farr West and mails Ogden.
Smith and Edwards is a big independent country, ranch, sporting goods and surplus store on Highway 126 just west of the freeway, the one thing in Farr West people drive across the region to reach. It is free to walk, open Monday to Saturday, and closed on Sundays. The one thing worth getting right is where it is: the mail says Ogden and the county parcel record says Farr West, and both are true at once. Here is the store, the hours, the way in, and the mailing address puzzle it makes famous.
The short answer
Smith and Edwards is a big independent country, ranch, sporting goods and surplus store at 3936 N 2000 W, out on Highway 126 just west of Interstate 15 and north of the Exit 349 interchange. It is free to walk in, it has a large free lot, and it is open Monday to Friday nine to eight and Saturday nine to six, closed Sundays. The one thing to get right is where it is: the store's mail says Ogden, and the Weber County parcel record puts the building on Farr West ground. Both are true at once. A second Smith and Edwards on Redwood Road in West Jordan is a different store. Checked August 2026.
The live question
Is Smith and Edwards in Ogden or in Farr West, and why does the answer depend on who you ask?
It is in Farr West, and its mail says Ogden, and both of those are true at the same time. The store's own address prints Ogden, because that is the postal address the mail runs on. The Weber County parcel record puts the building and the ground it sits on inside Farr West. A postal address and a city line are two different things, and in this corner of Weber County the Ogden address grid runs straight through several neighboring cities, so a great many Farr West places mail Ogden. The store is the most famous example.
This is not a technicality that matters only to a mapmaker. It matters if you are trying to tell someone where to meet you, or if you have read that Smith and Edwards is in Ogden and gone looking for it in the wrong part of town. The plain version is the useful one: it is on Highway 126, the 2000 West line, just west of the freeway and a little north of the Exit 349 interchange, on the Farr West side of the grid, and the mail is beside the point once you are driving to it.
The other half of the confusion is the second store. There is a Smith and Edwards on Redwood Road down in West Jordan, on the other side of the Salt Lake Valley, and it is a separate location. If you are planning a trip around the Farr West store, make sure the hours and the directions you are looking at are for this one and not the southern one. When this page says Smith and Edwards, it means the Farr West store at 3936 N 2000 W.
So the settled answer, the one to repeat: Smith and Edwards is a Farr West store with an Ogden mailing address, on Highway 126 just off the freeway, and it is not the West Jordan store of the same name. Checked August 2026.
What it is
A country and surplus store the size of a warehouse, with the sporting goods, the tack and the army surplus all in one place.
Smith and Edwards is the kind of independent store that has mostly disappeared: a big, sprawling country, ranch, sporting goods and general merchandise store with a wall of genuine army and outdoor surplus, all under one roof. The operator's own categories give the shape of it: sporting goods, which here means outdoor equipment, camping gear, fishing supplies and hunting merchandise; western and livestock supplies for people who keep horses or run stock; home improvement; and apparel. It is a place to outfit a hunt, a camp, a ranch or a work day, and a place to wander when you have no list at all.
The honest way to describe the experience is that it is big and it is deep, and the fun of it is turning a corner into an aisle you did not expect. That is also why the practical advice is to give it time: people who come with fifteen minutes and a single errand leave thinking it is just a big hardware store, and people who come with an hour and no particular plan leave having found three things they did not know they wanted. It is a destination store, not a convenience stop, and it repays being treated as one.
What the store does not publish, at least not in a way that was readable on this pass, is the size of the lot, whether there is a cafe or snack counter inside, and whether the hours shift with the seasons. So this page will not invent any of those. Bring a plan for lunch rather than counting on one inside, and if you are making a special trip on an unusual date, a quick call to the store settles the hours and saves the drive. The one thing that is certain and fixed is the Sunday closure.
The details
Getting there
Most people reach the store off the freeway rather than from the middle of town: take Interstate 15 to Exit 349, come off at the 2700 North interchange, and it is a minute west on Highway 126, unmissable for its long frontage and the surplus yard behind it. From inside Farr West it is a straight run north up the 2000 West line to about 3936 North. Either way the lot out front is large and free, and the door is a minute from the freeway.
Before you go
- Do not come on a Sunday. The store is closed and there is no exception to it.
- Use the free lot in front on the Highway 126 side. There is plenty of room.
- Give it an hour. The store rewards a wander and frustrates a quick errand.
- Weekends and hunting or camping season Saturdays are the busy times. A weekday morning is the quiet one.
- If you are on a special trip on an odd date, call ahead to confirm the hours rather than trusting a third-party listing.
The address puzzle
Why so many Farr West places mail Ogden, and how to tell the mailing address from the city line.
The store is the famous case, but it is not the only one, and the pattern is worth understanding because it shows up on a school and it will show up on a house. Here are the ones this pass resolved at the county parcel record, with what the mail says beside what the ground says.
| The place | What the mail says | What the parcel says |
|---|---|---|
| Smith and Edwards, 3936 N 2000 W | Ogden | Farr West |
| Farr West Elementary, 2190 W 2700 N | Ogden | Farr West |
| Fremont High, 1975 N 4700 W | Plain City | Plain City |
| Silver Ridge Elementary, 3340 N 3050 W | Farr West | Farr West |
| Wahlquist Junior High, 2656 N 2400 W | Farr West | Farr West |
Parcel results from the Weber County parcel service, read August 2026; mailing cities from each place's own listing. The lesson is simple: an Ogden mailing address in this area does not mean a place is in Ogden. When it matters for a home, a tax rate or a resident fee, the county parcel record settles which city you are actually in, and the mailing address does not.
The reason for all of it is the address grid. Ogden's numbered grid runs out through the cities northwest of it, so the postal system hangs an Ogden address on places that sit inside Farr West, Plain City and their neighbors. The mail follows the grid; the city line follows the parcel. For most daily purposes the mailing address is fine, but for anything that keys on jurisdiction, which city taxes the property, which city's resident rate applies, which city's services run to the door, the parcel is the answer and the envelope is not.
That is why the store, of all things, is the cleanest way into this: everyone knows Smith and Edwards, plenty of people think it is in Ogden, and it has stood on Farr West ground the whole time. Keep the pattern in mind when you look at a house here, because a listing that prints an Ogden address may well sit on Farr West ground, and the difference is real. The page on moving here works through how to confirm which city a specific lot is in.
Living with it
What the store means for the city when it is a Tuesday errand rather than a Saturday outing.
For a visitor the store is a destination; for a resident it is the reason you do not have to drive to a big box for a lot of things. Work boots, camping gear, fishing tackle, feed and tack, something for a fence or a yard project: Smith and Edwards carries the kind of range that a household in a semi-rural, freeway-adjacent city actually uses, and it is a few flat minutes from most Farr West addresses. That is a genuine convenience, and it is the sort of thing that quietly makes a place easier to live in.
It is also a landmark in the plain sense that it orients the city. People give directions by it, the freeway exit is the one you take for it, and the commercial stretch of Highway 126 runs past it. For a household new to Farr West it is a useful anchor: learn where the store is and you have learned the north end of the city and the way to the freeway in one trip.
The one thing not to over-read is the store as a sign of the city's retail future. The genuinely new retail is arriving down at the freeway interchange, at Farr West Landing, which is a different story on a different corner. The store is the established landmark; the Landing is the thing being built. The page on the crossroads takes that one, and it is worth reading before you assume the two are the same kind of thing.
Two things spoil a trip to Smith and Edwards, and both are avoidable: coming on a Sunday, and confusing it with the West Jordan store. The store is closed every Sunday with no exception, so a Sunday drive is a wasted one; go Monday through Saturday. And there is a separate Smith and Edwards on Redwood Road in West Jordan, across the Salt Lake Valley, so if you are checking hours or directions online make sure they are for the Farr West store at 3936 N 2000 W and not the southern one. The store publishes no cafe, no lot size and no seasonal hours change this pass, so do not plan a visit around amenities it has not confirmed; bring your own lunch plan and call ahead on an odd date.
Smith and Edwards is the rare famous store that sits behind another city's mailing address. It is genuinely in Farr West, it is genuinely worth an hour, and it is genuinely not the one in West Jordan.
Keep reading
Four more pages on Farr West, and the question each one answers.
The ranked list
The top 5 things to do in Farr West
Five picks with the addresses, the hours, and the one day of the week that shuts the store.
Read the guideThe east edge
The crossroads and Farr West Landing
The freeway edge at Exit 349, the commute both ways, and the Target project on old farm ground.
Read the guideThe schools
The schools in Farr West
Two elementaries and Wahlquist inside the line, Fremont over it, and a boundary that moved.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Farr West
Two water bills on many lots, a regional fire district, three schools, and no library in town.
Read the guideThe whole set
Farr West, start to finish
One famous store, five parks, three schools, a freeway corner and a July celebration.
Open the companionQuick answers
Smith and Edwards, answered.
It is a big independent country, ranch, sporting goods and surplus store at 3936 N 2000 W in Farr West, on Highway 126 just west of Interstate 15. The operator's own categories run to sporting goods, which here means outdoor equipment, camping gear, fishing supplies and hunting merchandise, plus western and livestock supplies, home improvement and apparel, alongside a well-known run of army and outdoor surplus. It is the kind of large, sprawling independent store that has mostly disappeared, free to walk in, and a genuine regional destination rather than a convenience stop.
It is in Farr West, and its mailing address says Ogden. The store prints 3936 N 2000 W, Ogden, but the Weber County parcel record puts the building on Farr West ground; the Ogden address is a postal one rather than a city line, which is common in this area because Ogden's address grid runs through several neighboring cities. In plain terms it is on Highway 126, the 2000 West line, just west of the freeway and a little north of the Exit 349 interchange. A separate Smith and Edwards on Redwood Road in West Jordan is a different store.
The operator posts Monday to Friday nine in the morning to eight at night, and Saturday nine to six. It is closed on Sundays with no exception, which is the single most common cause of a wasted trip. The store does not publish, at least not in a way that was readable when this page was built, whether its hours change with the seasons, so if you are making a special trip on an unusual date, a quick call to the store on its published number settles the hours before you commit the drive. Do not rely on a third-party listing's hours.
Yes, a large free surface lot in front of the store on the Highway 126 side. Parking is not the problem here; the lot is generous and it costs nothing. The store does not publish the size of the lot, so this page will not print a number, but in practice there is plenty of room even on a busy Saturday. From the freeway, Exit 349 puts you within about a minute of the lot, and from the middle of Farr West it is a flat few minutes north on Highway 126.
Anywhere from twenty minutes to a couple of hours, and the honest advice is to lean toward the longer end if you actually want to see the place. It is a big, deep store, and the pleasure of it is turning a corner into an aisle you did not expect, so people who come with a single quick errand tend to underrate it and people who come with an hour and no particular plan tend to find things they did not know they wanted. Treat it as a browse rather than a grab and go, especially in hunting or camping season.
The store does not publish one in a way that was readable when this page was built, so this page will not claim there is or is not. The safe plan is to bring your own lunch plan rather than counting on food inside. If a meal on site matters to your visit, call the store ahead and ask, rather than trusting a third-party listing that may be out of date. What is certain is the range of merchandise and the Sunday closure; the food question is one to confirm at the source.
No. There is a separate Smith and Edwards on Redwood Road in West Jordan, on the other side of the Salt Lake Valley, and it is a different location. When this page and this site say Smith and Edwards, we mean the Farr West store at 3936 N 2000 W on Highway 126. If you are checking hours or directions, make sure they are for the Farr West store and not the southern one, because the two are far apart and confusing them will send you an hour in the wrong direction.
Because a mailing address follows the postal grid and a city line follows the parcel, and in this part of Weber County the two do not match. Ogden's numbered address grid extends out through the cities northwest of it, so the postal system hangs an Ogden address on places that physically sit inside Farr West and its neighbors. It is the same reason Farr West Elementary mails Ogden while sitting on Farr West ground. For anything that keys on jurisdiction, the county parcel record is the authority and the envelope is not.
For a lot of people, yes. It is one of the more genuinely interesting independent stores in northern Utah, free to walk, and it sits right off the freeway at Exit 349, so it is an easy stop on a trip through the area and a real destination for anyone who camps, hunts, fishes, keeps stock or just likes a store with depth. The people who leave disappointed are the ones who gave it fifteen minutes; the people who give it an hour tend to come back. Just do not come on a Sunday.
The store is the landmark; the city around it is the decision.
Smith and Edwards is the reason a lot of people know Farr West at all, and it is a genuinely good store, but a store is not a reason to buy a house. If you are weighing Farr West as a place to live, the questions are the ordinary ones: which city a specific lot is actually in, because the store proves that a Farr West address and an Ogden mailing address are not the same thing; how close a home sits to the freeway and to the growing retail corner at the interchange; whether the lot carries a second, secondary irrigation water account; and which schools an exact address feeds. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works these streets, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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