Woodside is a ghost town located on the west bank of the shallow Price River in the nearly uninhabited eastern part of Emery County, Utah, United States.
Its fenced-in filling station is one of the only signs of human activity along the lonely stretch of U.S. Route 6/191 between Wellington and Green River.
Attracted by relatively abundant water and an extensive growth of cottonwood trees, they founded a settlement known as Lower Crossing.
In the 1880s the railroad had dug a large water well here, which had later turned into a cold bubbling mudpot driven by naturally occurring pressurized carbon dioxide gas.
[8] In the 1960s, the Highway Beautification Act led to the removal of a number of billboards advertising the town's geyser along U.S. Route 6, which had a major impact on tourist visits.
[9] A tanker truck explosion scene in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise was shot in Woodside; the town was bought by Roy Pogue in the early 1990s.