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A Backcountry Inn

EST. 1955

UTAH'S MOST REMOTE DESERT LODGE

HWY 95 BETWEEN NATURAL BRIDGES AND GLEN CANYON

A Country Inn Disguised as a
Classic Desert Outpost

NEW DELUXE GUEST ROOMS,
CLASSIC CAFE,
GIFT SHOP,
EARTH FRIENDLY SOLAR POWER,
RED ROCK CLIFFS AND CANYONS,
100 MILE VIEWS

TEL. 435-259-5224
e-mail:lodge@frycanyon.com

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Fry Canyon Lodge was founded in 1955 as a general store serving one of Utah's most remote mining districts. Today, we're still remote, but thanks to Utah's scenic Highway 95, we're also easy to get to.

We call ourselves a country inn disguised as a classic desert outpost. We may look like a historic general store on the outside, but inside you'll find clean, comfortable guest rooms, a charming cafe with good food, and a warm welcome from our friendly staff.

You won't believe our beautiful location. As the only building on all 120 miles of Highway 95 between Blanding and Hanksville, we have an awful lot of scenery to ourselves. There are fabulous walks just outside our door and the stars at night are brighter than you've ever seen them.

We hope to see you soon at Fry Canyon. To find us just drive down highway 95 to milepost 71, about halfway between Hite and Natural Bridges. We're hard to miss.

 

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We are not accepting reservations.

 

Fry Canyon Lodge is a classic piece of Americana in an incomparable setting. It is the kind of place that many of us yearn for in the West, but which today seems to have all but passed away. Fry Canyon, Utah, is really a ghost town that refused to give up the ghost. This site was once occupied by the ancient Anasazi. Traces of their presence here can be seen in many places around the lodge--including a dramatic cliff dwelling just up the canyon, During the mining boom of the 1950's, Fry Canyon was a thriving community of prospectors and cowboys with a U.S. post office and school.

But today the miners have left, the buildings are gone, and the desert has taken their place. Fry Canyon Lodge is all that remains in this vast, open country.

We call ourselves a country inn disguised as a classic desert outpost, and that's the kind of experience we try to provide.

We may be Utah's most remote desert lodge, but you'll find our ten beautiful new guest rooms a luxurious retreat, and our staff friendly and helpful. And we're now powered by the sun with a new photovoltaic solar system.

Our vintage cafe evokes the days when the fifty-mile drive to town took ten hours by Jeep, but we take great pride in our cooking, and you'll find fresh gourmet dinner selections available every night. We are also a State Liquor Licensee.

Edward Abbey once called this area the wild heart of the Colorado Plateau. His most famous novel took place in these canyons. Whether you stay with us for an evening, a week, or a season, you'll find plenty to see and do here.

If you've come to sight-see and relax, Natural Bridges National Monument is our near neighbor; we are also convenient to Glen Canyon and its famous reservoir. On the road to Mexican Hat, stop at Muley Point, with its incomparable views over Monument Valley and all four of the Four Corners states.

Back at the lodge, you'll find local Indian ruins to visit, and cool evening rim walks just outside your door, You won't believe the sunset over Jacob's Chair Butte as seen from our front porch, and you may be startled to realize how many stars there are in the desert sky at night.

The more adventurous will find breathtaking four-wheel- drive touring on the area's numerous backroads, and challenging hikes in Utah's most awe inspiring wilderness areas-- including Dark Canyon, Grand Gulch, and White Canyon. In the hot summer months the cooler elevations of Elk Mountain provide shaded mesa-top treks with dazzling views, and good roads for jeeping and biking. For the truly gonzo there's the Black Hole, with its hauntingly deep sandstone narrows, hypothermia-inducing swims, and difficult climbs.

And that's only the beginning. There are more beautiful, unnamed, undiscovered canyons and mesas in our backyard than anywhere else in America.

Despite the unique experience we provide, we're easy to get to these days (see map) and our rates are reasonable. Thanks to the Bicentennial Highway (completed 1976), we're about an hour from Blanding (or two hours from Moab), and about an hour and a half from Hanksville--all over paved roads. From Mexican Hat we're about an hour and 10 minutes via Moki Dugway--which can be driven easily in any car, despite a short gravel section.
in our gift shop we sell Native American pottery, Navajo rugs, jewelry, silver, turquoise, leather work, sandstone carvings, tee shirts, postcards, and books and videos about southeastern Utah.