Mount Carmel Junction, Utah Mount Carmel Junction Mt Carmel Junction Mount Carmel Junction is positioned in Utah Mount Carmel Junction - Mount Carmel Junction Mount Carmel Junction and Mount Carmel are unincorporated communities positioned 12 miles (19 km) east of Zion National Park and 17 miles (27 km) north of Kanab in Kane County, Utah, United States.
Mount Carmel Junction sits at the junction of U.S.
Mount Carmel is one mile (1.6 km) north of the junction.
Mount Carmel Junction is set in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau.
Doctor Priddy Meeks settled the town of Winsor in 1864, at the site of present day Mount Carmel Junction, as part of Brigham Young's plan to settle all of Utah Territory.
This time the town was settled in the name of Mount Carmel to honor the mountain in Palestine. In 1875 Elder Howard O.
Spencer presided over Mount Carmel and Glendale.
Only two families ever settled in Mount Carmel Junction, and one was Jack and Fern Morrison.
Jack explored the region and came to the conclusion that the road must come down in the region now known as Mount Carmel Junction.
Jack was patient and in 1931 he was able to homestead the territory now known as Mount Carmel Junction.
Jack and Fern lost two kids in the flash floods of the East Fork of the Virgin River that runs through the junction.
Artist Maynard Dixon, famed for his paintings of the American West, assembled a summer home in Mount Carmel Junction in 1939.
After his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1946, his ashes were buried on a high bluff above the Mount Carmel art studio being assembled on the property.
He was the first European-American to descend the East Fork of the Virgin River from the current locale of Mount Carmel Junction to Shunesburg.
A plaque can be found at the edge of the river, just east of the Zion National Park boundary in the East Fork, that reads: Carmel School and Church The Historic Rock Church in Mount Carmel was used to school the kids residing in the Mount Carmel area.
The route chosen went up the side of Pine Creek canyon on switchbacks, through a tunnel and then along Clear Creek to the east boundary of the park, and hence to US-89 at Mount Carmel Junction.
Construction work on the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel and the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway began in 1927.
July 4, 1930, the tunnel and highway were dedicated, linking Zion Canyon to the territory east of the park and making it easier to visit Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon National Parks.
The north-south trending Sevier Fault is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the chief highway through Mount Carmel Junction.
About halfway between Mount Carmel Junction and Kanab are the Coral Pink Sand Dunes.
The Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, titled after Mount Carmel, is well exposed in this area.
Mount Carmel region history Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Carmel Junction, Utah.
Carmel School and Church" (PDF).
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