Is it safe to visit fundamentalist Colorado City, Arizona?

Question

I plan to be near here next month, and thought it would be interesting to drive through, but I'm curious to know if this city is safe to visit. I know residents don't trust outsiders.

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

I went through Colorado City in July. I stopped and ate and gassed up. No problems at all. I wouldn't ask a lot of questions about poligamy though.

Answer 2

It's not really a city it's a just a collection of a bunch of buildings ,some of which resemble unfinished barracks or dormitories , that straddle a highway along the Arizona Strip .Actually it's a pair of towns that straddle the AZ/UT state-line ; Hilldale UT & Colorado City AZ
The Arizona Strip is classified as frontier which means that it contains less than 6 people per square mile. That's a lot of real estate to lose a person in especially considering that cell phones don't work in much of it.
In another lifetime I used drive through there once a week for about 2 years and I never stopped in for a visit. I paid attenention to the reduced speed signs coming into town and the resume speed signs leaving town.
and that was it . I have that native New Yorker personality that just gets me in trouble in small towns so I don't stop in them.

Answer 3

According to "Under the Banner of Heaven," a book on Mormon fundamentalists, outsiders aren't exactly encouraged to poke around. Don't know how true that is now, a few years after the book's publication, but I would at least tread lightly. I drove through it some years ago without incident, so it's not like anyone will be waiting at the town line.

Answer 4

It's like being in a foreign country, much like the Indian reservations. It is the one little piece of the world where the mormons have the upper hand and will use that upper hand.

Answer 5

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