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All the United States Utah Hurricane

The Atlas Obscura Guide To Hurricane

4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Hurricane, Utah

Updated January 10, 2025

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Entrance to the Mount Carmel Tunnel

Hurricane, Utah

Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.
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Hurricane, Utah

Pioneer Heritage Museum

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.
View of the back of the secondary dike as it exists today.

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Quail Creek Reservoir

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.
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Quail Creek Airmail Arrow

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.
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A series of storefronts resembling an Old Western town.

Virgin, Utah

Fort Zion

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.
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Ore cars.  Each held about a ton of rock, and a worker (“mucker”) was expected to fill about 16 in a shift.

Leeds, Utah

Silver Reef

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.
6 miles from Hurricane
Two of the last remaining buildings of Grafton, Utah, a ghost town south of Zion National Park (which you can see in the background). The schoolhouse was built in 1886, it was also used as a church and public meeting place.

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Grafton Ghost Town

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
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