Marysvale, Utah -
Big Rock Candy Mountain
At the base of the yummy, yellow-and-chocolaty hued mountain you can buy rock candy and copies of the song.
- Address:
- 4479 North Hwy 89, Marysvale, UT
- Directions:
- Just outside of Marysvale, head north 5 miles. Off of I-70 at exit 23, 18.5 miles south on highway 89.
- Phone:
- 435-326-2046
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Big Rock Candy Mountain Big Rock Candy Mountain is now a resort with cabins, RV park, kayaking, rafting, and it looked like maybe even zip lines. The mountain is gorgeous -- hard to capture the true beauty in pictures. Easy drive-by from Hwy 89. [Colleen C, 09/03/2011]
Big Rock Candy Mountain The old tourist stop is still there. A humongous family was having dinner at the restaurant when we were there, and service was a little slow because of it. Amazing stop, however.
Apparently Butch Cassidy's house is twenty miles up the road, but we couldn't find it at 11 pm that night. [Damion, 05/20/2008]
Big Rock Candy Mountain Tipster Tracy reminded us about this place. It's an old tourist attraction at the base of a vivid rock formation -- the "Big Rock Candy Mountain." It was named after a Depression Era ballad attributed to Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock about a fantasy land for hobos. The song was famously interpreted by Burl Ives in the 1950s, and more recently, on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. The mountain is a combination of sulphur, alunite, and other colorful minerals.
Doug was there as a child and vaguely recalls a large, tacky souvenir store/restaurant at the base. The nutty owner had plugged up the "Lemon Springs" and bottled the smelly water to sell to tourists. When we checked in the mid-1990s, it was closed and tied up in legal wrangling. The gas station across the street sold rock candy and cassettes of the song.
After a recent visit, Tracy Hansen sez: "There was a store open, in fact there were two or three little gift shops attached to hotels and rv parks. The animals were gone, though, and it was a lot cleaner than I remembered." [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 06/29/2006]
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