Lund is an unincorporated village located in the Escalante Valley of northwestern Iron County, Utah, United States, approximately 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Cedar City.
The town was named for Robert C. Lund, who was a Utah State legislator, local mine owner, and a director of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The branch was constructed in part to encourage travel to southern Utah's National Parks, and carried passenger trains during the summer months until 1960.
As part of this construction program, the railroad erected what was the historic town's most prominent building, a stately depot designed by noted architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood.
[4] Its closure reflected years of gradual population decline in the area, and only a handful of people live in the Lund vicinity today.