Woodside

Woodside grew up around water in a place with little of it. The Denver and Rio Grande put a bridge and a water stop on the Price River here in 1881, and homesteaders followed, digging a canal and planting the cottonwoods that gave the town its name. The river was never dependable — floods and drought wore the farms down — and when the railroad moved its work to Helper, the town emptied. Its longest-lived resident is a cold, carbon-dioxide geyser the railroad drilled by accident, still bubbling by the empty highway.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 19 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found
• Green River — 21 mi
  A small desert town famous for its melons and river adventures
• John Wesley Powell River History Museum — 21 mi
  The only U.S. museum devoted to river history, on the bank of the Green River.
• Wedge Overlook — 22 mi
  Utah's "Little Grand Canyon" — a 1,200-foot drop into the San Rafael Swell.

More markers nearby

• Bert Loper — 21 mi
• Rock Asphalt — 22 mi
• Major Powell, Colorado River Explorer — 22 mi
• Charles Winder & Caroline Mills — 24 mi