Robert LeRoy Parker — the man who would become Butch Cassidy — was born in Beaver, Utah, but grew up in Circleville, about 25 miles south of Panguitch, where the Parker family homestead still stands. It is a modest two-room cabin, preserved but unadorned, on the edge of a small ranch. Cassidy left this valley as a teenager, heading north to work the cattle ranges where he fell in with rustlers and outlaws and eventually formed the Wild Bunch.
The home is a tangible reminder that the most famous outlaw of the American West had genuinely humble origins in precisely this landscape. The surrounding canyon country — the same ranches, the same red-rock terrain — looks much as it did when Parker was riding through it in the 1880s. A short detour from Panguitch on the way to Bryce.