Dragon is a ghost town in Uintah County, at the extreme eastern edge of Utah, United States.

Founded in about 1888 as a Gilsonite mining camp, Dragon boomed in the first decade of the 20th century as the end-of-line town for the Uintah Railway.

Although it declined when the terminus moved farther north in 1911, Dragon survived as the largest of the Gilsonite towns.

The reason for the town's existence was the veins of natural asphalt called Gilsonite, found nowhere else in the world at the time, that run southeast to northwest through this region.

As the commercial mining of Gilsonite began in 1888, a significant deposit was discovered some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) up Dragon Canyon.

[4]: 98  In 1910, a costly fire sparked in stored Gilsonite completely destroyed the Uintah Railway warehouse, along with hundreds of tons of freight.

[2] The railroad saw the need to encourage the shipping of diverse products, and in 1912 they built large sheep shearing pens at Dragon.

There is a rubble pile where the hotel stood, a sidewalk that ran to the old schoolhouse, some foundations, and a small cemetery.