Monticello
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Monticello".
Nov 2, 2026
Andy FarnsworthHOST
Residents near Aneth and Bluff were told to evacuate Sunday as authorities watched for more water heading down the San Juan River.
Amanda DicksonHOST
Heavy rain north of Monticello also flooded parts of Highway 191 and 162, causing closures.
Amanda DicksonHOST
But the good news, bluff officials tell us the San Juan River is not near the record high levels seen during last Sunday's flooding.
Amanda DicksonHOST
The towns are still monitoring river levels this morning and urging residents to keep a 72-hour emergency go-bag ready.
Richie SteadmanHOST
And also, it is so much like...
Richie SteadmanHOST
The Monticello, Utah temple where it's like here are a couple manufactured homes.
Richie SteadmanHOST
Here's one home of the guy who owns all of the stores.
Richie SteadmanHOST
Temple.
speaker_1NARRATOR
On that particular Tuesday, along Route 191 somewhere in eastern Utah, I discovered how right she was.
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The road between Monticello and Blanding feels deserted even at the busiest time of year.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In April, though, it might as well be forgotten altogether.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Over the previous two hours, I had seen perhaps three other vehicles.
11 MINS LATER
speaker_1NARRATOR
Different roads, though.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Never Route 191.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Never that section between Monticello and Blanding.
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I put in a dashcam with both forward and rear-facing views.
Stetson DoneGUEST
But yeah, so like I come from pioneer ancestry on both sides.
Stetson DoneGUEST
And my mom primarily grew up in Monticello, Utah, a small, small town near the Four Corners area.
Stetson DoneGUEST
And my dad grew up in Mesa and both Mormon and still are.
Mergi DehlinHOST
Yeah.
Alex SchmidtHOST
And I'll link to High Country News, also link to Cowboy State Daily.
Alex SchmidtHOST
They covered towns like Monticello, Utah, Jeffrey City, Wyoming, where either there's an extremely small group of people who are just stubborn.
Alex SchmidtHOST
In Jeffrey City's case, it's 60 residents who, I shouldn't just call them stubborn, but they do take a pride in living among the ruins of what was a yellow cake boom town.
Alex SchmidtHOST
And in Monticello's case, apparently there's some people there, but they're having a hard time attracting new people because there's just wide documentation of the cancers and other health issues that people got by mining uranium forever.
Katie GoldinHOST
That was going to be my question.
Katie GoldinHOST
Like, how good is this as a retirement option, you know, for the arthritis or for your bum knee? Is that, you know, a problem?
Jesse JarnowHOST
It's a folk song by one metric, traveling wide enough to earn entry 10,681 in Steve Roud's massive index of 25,000 folk songs.
Jesse JarnowHOST
But it's also a folk song with an attributable author, a genuine cowboy named Fred Keller, who became an attorney and later judge, and wrote the song to commemorate the earliest days of Monticello, Utah, where Old Blue Mountain is visible on the north ridge of the Abajo Mountains.
Jesse JarnowHOST
The song was written in 1929 and printed as a ballad, and became a regional favorite.
Jesse JarnowHOST
There was a 1957 pop hit of the same name, but that's a different song, muddying the waters some when you try to search for it, but the song got around.
Trey YatesGUEST
Then there was Cortez, Colorado.
Trey YatesGUEST
Monticello, Utah.
Trey YatesGUEST
We won that rodeo.
Trey YatesGUEST
They're all co-approved.