Fry Canyon, Utah
Fry Canyon was a small community in San Juan County, Utah, United States, located in Fry Canyon, just south of White Canyon, west on State Route 95 from its junction with U.S. Route 191 at Blanding.Description
Fry Canyon was a uranium boom town during the 1950s, and the Fry Canyon Lodge opened in 1955, but it has since closed in 2007. The tiny hamlet, now a ghost town, is west-southwest of Woodenshoe Butte, and west-northwest of Natural Bridges National Monument.
The activities of a uranium ore upgrader mill and a subsequent copper heap leach operation at Fry Spring, two miles southeast of Fry Canyon, caused uranium, copper and radium contamination of groundwater in colluvial channel deposits within Fry Creek. The U.S. Geological Survey installed three permeable reactive barriers, containing three different reactive materials pellets, bone charcoal pellets, amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide, at the site, which is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
