FRY CANYON LODGE HISTORY
Founded in 1955 as a remote mining supply store, the lodge once served as
a rough-and-tumble community center for as many as 3000 miners living in
this remote area--and for two years running sold more beer than any other
establishment in Utah! Fry Canyon once had a U.S. Post office and a school
with 67 children--and still appears as a town on most Utah maps--but today
our lodge is all that remains here. The characters in Edward Abbey's The
Monkey Wrench Gang -- the novel that inspired Earth First! -- spent
much of their time trying to sabotage the construction of the highway that
runs by our front door (the highway was finished in 1976, and we are the
only building on its entire 120-mile length between Hanksville and Blanding.)
During the Uranium Boom the Lodge served as a community center and U.S.
Post office.
As many as 3000 miners lived and worked around the Fry Canyon area.
Here miners inspect a test hole at the Bell mining claim.
Before the highway was completed in 1976, the airstrip at
Fry Canyon provided the only rapid link to civilization.
The lodge has ten charming guest rooms -- eight with private baths -- a
vintage dining room serving home cooked food, a small general store, a pool
table and a piano. Despite its remote location, it is easy to reach by passenger
car over paved roads.