Round Trip Distance: 100 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5261 - 5269 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: 37.64973, -110.15914
Fee: none
Attractions: cliff dwelling
The Fry Canyon Ruins are located just off of Utah Highway 95 about 22.5 miles south of Hite, Utah. Tucked away inside a large alcove in the bottom of Fry Canyon, near its junction with the much longer White Canyon, the mostly well preserved ruins are visible from an overlook.
A few miles north of the turnoff to the ruins there is a BLM kiosk with a map that shows their location. We point that out because that is how we found the ruins ourselves.
At the present time there isn't a sign at the turnoff letting you know where to turn. On maps the road is labeled Fry Canyon Ruins Road - CR 2141. After turning off of the highway there is a white marker with the county road number 2141 on it. During dry weather the road should be suitable for most highway vehicles.
A short distance from the highway the road crosses a landing strip on which you will want to be sure not to park.
The patches of slickrock have been smoothed out with a grinder. A couple of spots might be more suitable for vehicles with a little bit of ground clearance but most any vehicle should be able to get within a couple hundred yards of the overlook.
At least one spot in the primitive camping area is suitable for RVs of most any size with room to turn them around.
From the overlook the ruins appear to have at least a half dozen rooms that include at least one above ground kiva.
Not all of the walls go all the way up to the ceiling. It's hard to tell if that was always the case.
These are the rooms on the far right hand side of the alcove.
This large room looks like it may have been a kiva.
For those wondering how to get down to the ruins this is the view upstream. It is our understanding that to come from that direction requires at least one repel.
And this is the view looking downstream toward Fry Canyon's confluence with White Canyon. We don't have any information on places to get down into the canyon in that direction other than where one of the 4WD roads makes a crossing. Whether you can hike without any obstructions from that direction we don't know (yet). If it is hike-able there might be a lot more to discover.
