Actually a complex of carbonate hills rather than a true mountain, its name was given to it by workers on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, one of whom, brakeman Harry McClintock, later composed a song named after this geographic feature.
Its base alongside the Sevier River is home to a resort and it is located just north of Marysvale in Piute County. The product of a volcanic eruption that occurred 22 to 35 million years ago, it is part of the Bullion Canyon Volcanics massif, and its characteristic colors are the result of an intrusion by magma bodies. Actually a complex of carbonate hills rather than a true mountain, its name was given to it by workers on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, one of whom, brakeman Harry McClintock, later composed a song named after this geographic feature. Located on the edge of Fishlake National Forest in Utah, for ten points, identify this geographic feature where, according to McClintock's song, "they hung the jerk who invented work," and which gained renown as a fictional hobo paradise.
Its base alongside the Sevier River is home to a resort and it is located just north of Marysvale in Piute County.
{Big Rock Candy Mountain}