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Grafton Historic Townsite
Grafton is a ghost town on the Virgin River, settled in 1859 and finally abandoned by 1944 after decades of floods. Volunteers with the Grafton Heritage Partnership have restored several of its buildings, and you can walk the townsite and its cemetery on your own. Film crews shot scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid here.
What is inside
- Restored pioneer buildings on the townsite
- Grafton cemetery
- Filming location for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Good for
- History buffs
- Outdoors
- A free day out
- Road trips
From the museum's own site, checked October 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
Plan it
- Where
- About 3.5 miles west of Rockville, across the Virgin River via Bridge Road
- Admission
- Free.
- Website
- graftonheritage.org
- Season
- No water, power or toilets, and the dirt road can be impassable in a hard rain.
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