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Midway is a city in northwestern Wasatch County, Utah, in the Heber Valley about 3 miles west of Heber City and 28 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, and its ZIP code is 84049.

The 2020 census counted 6,003 people in Midway, up sharply from 3,845 in 2010, and there were 2,017 households in the city.

Permanent settlement began in 1858-59, when settlers established two small communities on Snake Creek known as the upper settlement and the lower settlement.

In the 1860s the two settlements merged to become Midway, named for Fort Midway, which stood halfway between them, and the fort site is now the town square.

The first European-Americans known to visit the area were members of a fur-trapping brigade led by Etienne Provost in 1824, exploring the region then known as Upper Provo.

Midway is known for its Swiss influence, and some subdivisions require new houses to include features associated with Swiss house styles.

Midway Swiss Days, founded in 1947 to attract tourists, is the city's best-known annual festival, and the Swiss theme was created by screenwriter Orma W. Wallengren.

The Homestead caldera, a resort with a geothermal pool, offers year-round scuba diving in its warm water, and the hidden-pool scene in the film 127 Hours was filmed there.

Wasatch Mountain State Park lies on Snake Creek in north Midway, and nearby Soldier Hollow offers cross-country skiing, a tubing hill, and the Utah Ice Castles in winter.

The Wasatch Fault runs underneath Midway, and fault activity is responsible for the limestone potrock mounds and hot springs around the city.