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westcoastas · 12-15-2014, 05:10 PM

We're staying at Snow Canyon campground in Utah and while watching one of our favorite movies, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, we realized we were hiking in the scenes where Butch and Sundance were running away from the posse. If the weather was more accommodating, I could have done a back flop into the sandstone pool myself! See for yourself...

**Stefrobrts** · 12-15-2014, 05:23 PM

Cool find!

FishinHatteras · 12-15-2014, 05:29 PM

That's awesome! Definitely one of my top ten favorite movies. Thanks for postiing this!

Lily&Me · 12-15-2014, 06:13 PM

Awww...so cool!

Maggie

AWCHIEF · 12-15-2014, 06:42 PM

That definetly has a cool factor.

Jim Foster · 12-15-2014, 06:51 PM

Just up the road from you in Hurricane, you can find the house and grounds where the bicycle scene was filmed. Ask a local.

Lily&Me · 12-15-2014, 07:03 PM

One of the best movie scenes, EVER.

I have a picture of Doug, taken out west somewhere

.....next to a bronze statue of Butch Cassidy.

He loved that movie.

Maggie

westcoastas · 12-15-2014, 08:03 PM

Jim, thanks for the heads up - we'll check that out. That sequence shows what a coordinated guy Paul Newman was. I've always admired the cinematographer for his camera work through the slats of wood making it appear to be a flickering old movie.

Hi Maggie! Was the statue Doug was standing next to the real Butch or Newman's? I'd like to see that. Wasn't the real Butch from somewhere in Utah? I love that movie too. It's totally a guy's movie where almost any guy can recite at least a few lines from it. The park manager said a lot of scenes from Jeremiah Johnson were also filmed at Snow Canyon too so I'll have to try and find those for another home-made "re-creation."

mojo · 12-15-2014, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Foster

Just up the road from you in Hurricane, you can find the house and grounds where the bicycle scene was filmed. Ask a local.

Filmed in Grafton, just outside of Rockville and the entrance to Zion.

youngpeck · 12-15-2014, 10:21 PM

Those are great pictures! Butch Cassidy was from Circleville (which hasn't changed much in 100 years), north of Panguitch on US 89, which is near Bryce Canyon. You can do a circle that way up to Capitol Reef. The old Robbers' Roost (and) Spring, east of Hanksville, is still running, but the roads in that area (near the approach to the Maze District of Canyonlands N.P.) are not good for pulling trailers. You would have to walk into the Spring at any rate. It's quite the perfect area for what was Butch's favorite hide-out.

Fly at Night · 12-15-2014, 11:55 PM

Neat-O!

Lily&Me · 12-16-2014, 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by westcoastas

Jim, thanks for the heads up - we'll check that out. That sequence shows what a coordinated guy Paul Newman was. I've always admired the cinematographer for his camera work through the slats of wood making it appear to be a flickering old movie.

Hi Maggie! Was the statue Doug was standing next to the real Butch or Newman's? I'd like to see that. Wasn't the real Butch from somewhere in Utah? I love that movie too. It's totally a guy's movie where almost any guy can recite at least a few lines from it. The park manager said a lot of scenes from Jeremiah Johnson were also filmed at Snow Canyon too so I'll have to try and find those for another home-made "re-creation."

I don't remember, exactly, but I think the real Butch Cassidy. I'll look for it.

Jeremiah Johnson is a favorite movie of mine, seen it several times.

Maggie

youngpeck · 12-16-2014, 07:23 AM

Much of The Electric Horseman was filmed in and around Zion as well. There used to be a bar on south side of the highway in the crossroads of Virgin, on the way to Springdale (and the main entrance to the Park) that the cast and crew would "water" in after a long day's filming. Local legend has it that Willie Nelson did a bit of jamming there at the time.

Len n Jeanne · 12-17-2014, 11:59 PM

The last I knew, Grafton (ghost town) near Zion NP is private property and visitors are barred from it, but I think it can still be glimpsed in places from the highway.

A lot of old westerns were filmed in and around Kanab, Utah.... and then, there's always Monument Valley. (Anyone else seen the Xarelto (drug) commercial on TV, with the AS driving through it?)

youngpeck · 12-18-2014, 08:27 AM

Grafton is easily accessible. Just near the entrance to Zion is the town of Rockville. There is an auto bridge over the Virgin River which you take to reach Grafton on the south side of the river. In fact, the Park Service has recently become interested in helping with interpretive activities at and for Grafton, although I don't believe there is a physical "presence" of NPS signage at Grafton itself.

You must be thinking of the ghost town of Shunesburg, which is on private property, three miles up the East Fork of the Virgin River. Years ago you could still hike the East Fork (Parunuweap Canyon, named by John Wesley Powell on his second expedition in 1871-72. It means "roaring water canyon" in the Paiute language.) which flows through the Park to the confluence with the North Fork of the Virgin. It is only the last four miles that are on private property. Sometime after I hiked through there in the early-1990s the property owner got fed up with all the traffic and closed access. And in 1992 the Park Service closed the rest of Parunuweap Canyon. Some say it rivals the Zion Narrows for beauty and stunning majesty, and I certainly agree with this.