Mount Carmel Junction and Mount Carmel are unincorporated communities located 12 miles (19 km) east of Zion National Park and 17 miles (27 km) north of Kanab in Kane County, Utah, United States.

This time the town was settled in the name of Mount Carmel to honor the mountain in Palestine.

Jack contemplated the idea that a road must be built connecting Zion Canyon to the east side of the park.

Jack and Fern lost two children in the flash floods of the East Fork of the Virgin River that runs through the junction.

Jack died in 1961, from cancer after serving in the war and spending much of his life working in the coal mines.

Artist Maynard Dixon,[4] famed for his paintings of the American West, built a summer home in Mount Carmel Junction in 1939.

After his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1946, his ashes were buried on a high bluff above the Mount Carmel art studio being built on the property.

He was the first European-American to descend the East Fork of the Virgin River from the current location of Mount Carmel Junction to Shunesburg.

A plaque can be found at the edge of the river, just east of the Zion National Park boundary in the East Fork, that reads: "Major John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 explorer, scientist, Steven V. Jones 1840-1920 teacher, topographer, Joseph W. Young 1829-1873 Mormon pioneer leader, Descended Labyrinth Falls 1/2 mile below Monday, September 30, 1872 during first Parunuweap Canyon traverse.

The tunnel especially was considered quite an engineering feat for the time, requiring boring 5,613 feet (1,711 m) through solid rock.

The north–south trending Sevier Fault is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the main highway through Mount Carmel Junction.

About halfway between Mount Carmel Junction and Kanab are the Coral Pink Sand Dunes.