NAME: Harrisburg COUNTY: Washington ROADS: 2WD CLIMATE: Cool winter with possible snow, warm summer. COMMENTS: Right off I-15. REMAINS: Many ruins. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime One of the first settlements in the Southern Utah area was Harrisburg, founded in 1861 by Moses Harris and a few Mormon families who settled along Quail Creek. Despite their efforts in digging a 5-mile-long irrigation canal along what is …
FieLd oF ScReAms!
Field of Screams, St. George, Utah Open: October 1st thru 31st A simple cornfield turned into a haven for ghosts and goblins — a FIELD OF SCREAMS — just the thing to scare innocent boys and ‘ghouls’!Every turn provokes screams from even the bravest of the brave. It’s the ultimate scare — on Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights: dark to …
Corn Maze Just Minutes Away
Open: October 1st thru 31st We’re a fifth-generation working farm in beautiful Washington, Utah. Our roots are deep in agriculture and family heritage! In the Spring and Summer, we have a Farm Market for fresh fruits and vegetables, and we host Community Garden plots. In the Fall, we have a large cornfield maze, pumpkin patch, farm hayrides, and Halloween Haunted …
An Artistic Adventure
In 1939, Maynard Dixon and his young wife, artist Edith Hamlin, left their long-held studios and careers in San Francisco and headed for the magnificence and fresh air of Southern Utah. They purchased a 20 acres, set in a grove of cottonwood trees, in the small town of Mt. Carmel, Utah on historic U.S. Route 89 where they soon built …
St George Tabernacle
Among the most beautiful building in St. George—and an excellent example of fine old-world craftsmanship, from the hand-quarried red stone walls to the intricate interior woodwork. Its craftsmen finished pine, which was all they had, to look like exotic hardwoods and even marble. Completed in 1876 after 13 years of work, the Tabernacle served as a house of worship and town …
Brigham Young Home
Brigham Young, as the locals say, was St. George’s first snowbird. As Young aged and began suffering from arthritis, he found that St. George’s warm, dry and snowless winters eased his discomfort. The original portion of his home was begun in 1869 and completed in 1871. The front addition—what most would call the main part of the house—was completed in …