A railroad junction town drowned in 1983 when a massive landslide dammed the Spanish Fork River — the disaster that produced Utah's first federal disaster declaration and one of the costliest landslides in U.S. history. The half-submerged, mud-filled houses are visible from pullouts along US-89/US-6 in Spanish Fork Canyon, but the ruins themselves stand on private land where trespassing is enforced. Photograph from the roadside; the flooded structures are rotten, muddy, and unstable.
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