The bluebirds no longer sing by the lemonade springs:
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Resort on the Sevier River near
Marysvale, Utah, is bankrupt. The sulphur- and chocolate-colored
mountain, celebrated in a song written by Harry McClintock and sung
by Burl Ives, attracted visitors from around the world who during
the 1950s drank its mineral-rich spring water, rumored to have
healing powers. Families on the way to Bryce Canyon and Zion
National Park stopped to view the stunning Candy Mountain, and
writer Wallace Stegner titled a book after it. The resort was
doomed by the arrival of Interstate 70 and air-conditioned cars
that enabled tourists to drive for longer stretches without
pausing. Efforts to find a buyer for the resort, including an
auction in August, have failed, reports the Salt Lake
Tribune.

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Reality intrudes on Big Rock Candy Mountain

by Staff, High Country News
October 17, 1994

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