The Beehive Kilns and Frisco, Utah
Frisco, Utah
General Overview
The Beehive Kilns are charcoal kiln structures built by the Frisco Mining Company in 1877 back in the day when Frisco was a booming mining town. In order to get to them, you pass through the old ghost town of Frisco.
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Frisco is located just over 3 and a half hours southwest of SLC. For history on the town, check the links at the bottom.
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Frisco Coordinates: 38.460553, -113.259234
The Beehive Kilns Coordinates: 38.460812, -113.262841
Geographic location. Clicking image brings up the location in google maps.
Photo of one of the kilns up close.
What To Do
You will be able to just drive right up to them. You can walk around the kilns and take pictures. After you walk through all the kilns, you can go and check out the old ghost town of Frisco as well as the mining area. The mining area is quite exansive and there are tons of scattered buildings and mining equipment left out.
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I've scoped out the area of Frisco on maps and tried to find most of the structures of areas where they area clustered. When I visit, I can give more detailed versions of these on each of the buildings or building clusters.
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I will also link a map at the bottom with pins to all of these locations I'm marking below. You can also click on the map images and it should pull up a google maps link.
Area that contains almost all of Frisco. The town is just above "Frisco" and the mining area is in the bottom left quadrant of this image.
Frisco mining equipment in the mining area.
The Main Town: 38.460553, -113.259234
Building Area 1: 38.448541, -113.275273
Building area 1 located in the mining area.
Main town area.
Building foundation area.
Foundation Area: 38.460553, -113.259234
Mining Equipment: 38.451165, -113.279008
Mining equipment left out. Pin for the location 2 photos up.
Isolated building.
Isolated Building: 38.460553, -113.259234
Building Area 2: 38.452336, -113.275010
Building area 2. Buildings left and down in image.
Cluster of ruins and machinery located south of the main mining area.
South Area Ruin Cluster: 38.446630, -113.275237
Mining Area: 38.447299, -113.297405
Mining area just west.
Not sure what this hole here is. POI
Unknown POI 1: 38.443082, -113.275114
Old King David Mine:
Old King David Mine. Sealed.
Other Things To Note
The road there is not paved. So if it is wet or snowy, 4x4 recommended.
Final Thoughts
The kilns are some of the best surviving structures in the whole town. With so many buildings and things, you could spend a while here going through all the mining ruins.
Relevant Sources and More Information
http://mtnmad.com/old-frisco-mine-utah/ - Most of the pictures.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Frisco,_Beaver_County,_Utah_Genealogy - first Frisco picture
https://thetrekplanner.com/frisco-utah/ - great resource for history about the town.
https://www.loc.gov/item/ut0176/ - history
Photo Gallery
Coming soon!