Wilberg Mine Memorial

On the night of December 19, 1984, fire broke out in the Wilberg Mine in the canyon above here, and smoke ran down the tunnels to the crew working the Fifth Right longwall. One man got out. Twenty-seven did not — eighteen miners and nine company officials, among them Nannette Wheeler, the first woman killed in a Utah mine. The fire drove rescuers back and the mine was sealed; the bodies came out months later. This granite slab on the hillside carries their names, and every December the families return to read them.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Skyline Drive — 18 mi
  A hundred miles of dirt along the 10,000-foot crest of the Wasatch Plateau
• Manti-La Sal National Forest — 21 mi
  Alpine peaks rising above red rock desert
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 22 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found
• Wedge Overlook — 25 mi
  Utah's "Little Grand Canyon" — a 1,200-foot drop into the San Rafael Swell.

More markers nearby

• Wilberg Mine Disaster Monument — 5.1 mi
• First Settlers in Castle Dale — 5.3 mi
• Old Ranger Station — 8.6 mi
• Tithing Granary — 18 mi