Castle Gate Cemetery

The town is gone; only its dead remain. Castle Gate was a company coal camp of some twenty-seven nationalities until the 1970s, when the buildings were hauled off and the site abandoned — leaving this cemetery on the canyon's edge as the last trace. The stones themselves record a cruelty of timing. A month before the 1924 mine explosion that killed 171 men, Utah Fuel had laid off its single miners first, keeping married men on. So the graves run heavily to husbands and fathers, and twice as many married men lie here as single ones.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 9.4 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 9.4 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum

More markers nearby

• Castle Gate Mine Disaster — 1.0 mi
• Utah's Coal Industry — 1.0 mi
• Pleasant Valley Coal Company — 1.0 mi
• Geneva/Horse Canyon Mine Monument — 3.4 mi