Red Canyon is a little known gem located 4 miles east of Highway 89 and 9 miles west of Bryce Canyon. Red Canyon is a forested area with sixty-million year old dark red rock castles protruding up from crimson sand.
History and lore of the old west are alive in Red Canyon, thanks to Butch Cassidy, who was raised nearby in a cabin in Circleville where he lived from 1879 until 1884 . Rumor has it that when Cassidy was in Panguitch at a dance he got himself into a brawl over a girl. Cassidy thought he killed the fellow and fled to the craggy land where Red Canyon is today. Turns out the man he knocked out was just fine, but a posse was already sent out after Cassidy. He eluded them by hiding along what is now known as the Cassidy Trail. Red Canyon is not quite as famous as old Butch, but it is part of the vast 2-million acres that make up Utah's most famous forest, Dixie National Forest.
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