Piute County Courthouse

Piute is one of the emptiest counties in Utah, and this is its seat of government. The courthouse at Junction went up in 1902–03 to R. C. Watkins's design, a proper civic building for a county that has never held many people — a few thousand at its peak, fewer now. This is Butch Cassidy country: the outlaw grew up as Robert LeRoy Parker on a ranch near Circleville, a few miles south, before he rode off to rob banks and trains across the West. The courthouse still does the county's business, plain and solid on its quiet corner.

What the plaque says

Built 1902-1903. Architect: R.C. Watkins. Constructed by: Young, Allen & Morrill.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Butch Cassidy Boyhood Home — 7.3 mi
  The restored Circleville cabin where the West's most famous outlaw spent his teens
• Big Rock Candy Mountain — 23 mi
  The real mountain that inspired the famous hobo folk song
• Beaver — 23 mi
  A charming main street town with surprisingly good food
• Fremont Indian State Park — 24 mi
  The largest known Fremont Indian village ever discovered

More markers nearby

• Circleville Veterans Memorial — 5.3 mi
• Marysvale — 15 mi
• Pioneers of Antimony — 15 mi
• The Beaver Woolen Mills — 23 mi