Holt Canyon
Holt Canyon, originally called Meadow Canyon or Meadow Valley, is a valley in Washington County, Utah. Its mouth lies at an elevation of where it enters the Escalante Valley. Its head lies at an elevation of 5,600 feet at west of the site of the ghost town of Hamblin, Utah.
History
Meadow Canyon was the northern part of the long well watered meadow with excellent grazing, called Mountain Meadow that was used by the merchants and drovers on the Old [Spanish Trail (trade route)|Old Spanish Trail] and later by travelers on the wagon road that followed the older trail, called the Mormon Road. Later the canyon was renamed Holt Canyon after James Holt, who came in 1867 to visit his brother-in-law, a settler of Hamblin, Utah. He subsequently took up land and built a house in the Canyon five miles north in what became the settlement of Holt, Utah, now known as the Holt Historical Site at an elevation of at. Nearby is the Holt Cemetery at an elevation of at.