Monument to Harrisburg Pioneers

Harrisburg was one of the small cotton towns strung along the Virgin River country, settled in 1859 on the hope that this warm corner could be made to pay. The 1862 flood forced a move to higher ground, and the town started over. But the water was never quite enough, the living never quite easy, and one family after another moved on. By the early 1900s it was empty. What sets Harrisburg apart is how much of it survives — solid little houses of stone and adobe, standing roofless in the brush with the Pine Valley Mountains behind them.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hurricane Canal Trail — 6.4 mi
  The hand-dug canal that built Hurricane, now a walking trail blasted into the Virgin River gorge
• Snow Canyon State Park — 14 mi
  Red and white sandstone cliffs with ancient lava flows
• St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm — 14 mi
  Real dinosaur footprints preserved in ancient sandstone
• Grafton Ghost Town — 18 mi
  A photogenic ghost town used in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

More markers nearby

• Southern Exploring Company 1849 Parley P. Pratt Southern Utah Expedition — 5.8 mi
• Look-Out Point — 5.8 mi
• The Southern Exploring Company — 6.0 mi
• Spencer and Helen Isom "Home" — 6.1 mi