Peter Skene Ogden entered the valley on May 16, 1825[1] with a band of trappers employed by the Hudson's Bay Company.

[8] The HBC band left the Valley a few days later, but returned on May 25 after American trappers drove them away from Mountain Green at Deserter Point.

[9][10] In 1849 Captain Howard Stansbury of the U.S. Army explored the valley during an expedition to Northern Utah with Jim Bridger.

Stansbury described the area as a "most lovely, broad, open valley" with its "numerous bright little streams of pure running water" a "scene...cheering in the highest degree".

The Valley is centered around Pineview Reservoir, which is fed by the North, Middle and South forks of the Ogden River.