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Mountain Green is a census-designated place in northwestern Morgan County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,309 at the 2010 census. Located 16 miles (26 km) up the Weber River from Ogden, Mountain Green is the world headquarters of the Browning Arms Company.

The present-day site of Mountain Green was the location of a historic meeting of three groups of mountain men in May 1825. Peter Skene Ogden, leading 58 trappers:54–58 from the British Hudson’s Bay Company, camped here upon May 22, 1825. The adjacent day, 25 American Rocky Mountain Fur Company trappers belonging to John Henry Weber’s brigade arrived below the command of Johnson Gardner. Étienne Provost was also encamped in the area, with his own company of 15.

On May 24, 1825 John Gray, a half-Iroquois leader of the freemen trappers who were dissatisfied later the conditions and pay under the Hudson’s Bay Company, declared their aspire to depart Ogden’s brigade. The HBC freemen had spent the previous several days in imitation of Johnson Gardner’s group, and had brought the Americans incite with them to withhold the freemen’s direct to desert, seeking far ahead payments for their furs and degrade prices for supplies. Several men who had before deserted HBC encouraged others further on along. In the fade away 23 Hudson’s Bay Company trappers deserted, taking some 700 pelts following them.:54–58 Ogden and his steadfast men left the area the neighboring day.