About the Project
An independent effort to document, preserve, and responsibly share the history of Evermore Park.
What Beyond the Portal is
Beyond the Portal is an independent historical preservation project focused on Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It collects, organizes, researches, and documents the park’s history, with the long-term aim of building a public digital archive and a comprehensive historical book.
Why it exists
Evermore was a creative environment as much as a place. Much of what made it what it was lives in personal photographs, private files, physical objects, and memory. Without deliberate effort, that history can be scattered or lost. This project exists to preserve it and make it accessible.
What it hopes to preserve
Photographs, video, documents, creative and design work, architectural and development history, physical artifacts, and the recollections of the people who built, performed in, worked at, and visited the park.
Independent status
Beyond the Portal is not the official Evermore Park website. It is not operated by former park ownership and has no formal affiliation with Evermore Park or its former ownership.
Commitment to accuracy
Dates, changes, and claims will be supported by sources wherever possible. Where information is uncertain, conflicting, or based on personal recollection, the project will say so rather than present assumptions as fact. Errors will be corrected when credible new evidence appears.
Provenance, permissions, and responsible publication
Preservation does not mean taking ownership. The project may preserve copies, document materials, conduct research, and publish selected content where permission and rights allow.
- Contributing an item does not automatically transfer ownership.
- Contributing an item does not automatically grant permission to publish it.
- Original files are preserved whenever possible, and edited or derived copies are kept distinct from originals.
- Provenance, context, permissions, and restrictions are recorded.
- Only materials cleared for public access will appear in the public archive.
- Private contact information, restricted materials, and internal research records are not published.
Additional written permissions may be requested when appropriate.