Sego
Personal Notes
This page contains our personal notes on the ghost town of Sego, Utah.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
See our Book Cliff Personal Notes for directions to this site, as well as notes on the nearby Sego Rock Art Panels.
Sego Ghost Town
9:14 a.m.
The Sego Ghost Town is at GPS Coordinates 39 02.022N; 109 42.204W; at an elevation of 5,415 feet. There is a large stone building (the general store) and a large two story wooden building (the boarding house). Down the road a few feet we also found several interesting dugouts. Some were obviously living quarters while others looked more like garages or work shops. We also walked over to see one of the old bridges that we encountered along the route in. It looks to be an old railroad bridge with sturdy concrete foundations and very large timbers. We noted several other concrete foundations on the way in, each over the dry stream bed.
There was also another stone walled building that was built into a mound of soil located behind the larger stone building. I have no idea as to its purpose, but it did have a front door and window, so it might have been an office of some sort.
9:32 a.m.
We walked around and through the large stone building, and the carefully walked around the wooden building. The wooden building is in bad shape and someone has knocked down most of the walls, which appear to have been covered in plaster. There were also the bodies of several old cars parked here and there, with any valuable parts missing and the doors peppered with bullet holes.
From there we drove just a short ways farther up the canyon to the large tailings for the coal mine. There is lots of coal waste spread out down the wash and also used for road fill.
Sego Cemetery
9:54 a.m.
On the way back out of Sego Canyon we stopped at the small cemetery where Sego Canyon and Thompson Canyon merge. The site is unmarked, so we don’t know if the graveyard is for Sego or Thompson Springs. Most of the graves are old and unmarked, but there was one relatively modern headstone with a date of 1995. Several of the headstones were quite unusual in their use of native rock.
From there we drove back down the paved road through Thompson Springs and then caught I-70 west to head home.
