- City:
- Monticello, UT
- Site Type:
- CCC Camps, Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Forestry and Agriculture, Campgrounds and Cabins, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Telephone Lines, Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp 23 miles north of Monticello in San Juan County, in the southeast corner of Utah. CCC teams worked around Dry Valley, Indian Creek, Blanding, Monticello and La Sal, building fences and corrals; flood control and erosion works, including reseeding, revegetation and cultivation; telephone lines; and campgrounds. The CCC men also built the road through the Abajo Mountains from Monticello to Blanding.
Nothing remains of the camp except ruins of the camp gate, building foundations, the access road and an old Pontiac — all of which are well documented by Mary Cokenour on her blog site (below).
Source notes
https://www.southwestbrowneyes.com/2016/03/monticellos-decaying-past-dry-valley.html
Site originally submitted by John Ackerman on September 14, 2019.
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I remember going to this site with my dad in the early 1950’s. There were several foundations for buildings and a jail. My dad told me that they build a picnic spot that the town used Saturday night for fraternization and food. It was called Buckboard Flats. There was no camping at this site. After the uranium mill closed another buckboard flats was built near Dalton Springs.