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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.

Hurricane, Utah

Quail Creek Reservoir

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.
The arrow.

Hurricane, Utah

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.
6 miles from Hurricane
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.

Rockville, Utah

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.
11 miles from Hurricane

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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.
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