Hole 'N' The Rock — Attraction in Spanish Valley

Hole N The Rock is an intriguing place located on Highway 161 south of Moab. At this location during the 1940-50's, Albert and Gladys Christensen, who owned this land at the time, blasted and removed earth material from the rock face to create a 14 room, 5000 sq. foot home.

The grounds are open from 9-5pm and tours of the Hole N The Rock home are $6.50 per person. Tours last 12 minutes and cover the majority of the house, which has more or less been left as it was when Gladys passed away in 1974.

Some nice period furniture can be viewed in addition to the ingenuity of Albert's efforts to create a large scale home inside the rock. Tour guides provide a brief history of how the home was created and decorated as well as inform of the use of the property during the Christensen's lifetimes.

In addition to the tour, there is a gift shop and a few other minor attractions you can see at Hole N The Rock, including a petting zoo, shop selling Native American jewellery, ice-cream and soft drinks. Eclectic metalworks and other odd items are found throughout.

In the end, much of the Hole N The Rock is rather tacky but still an impressive feat - actually creating such a home within the cliffs, something worth seeing for some who pass by during visits to Southern Utah.

Note: No photos allowed within the actual home during tours. However, they will sell you a set of postcard pictures of the various rooms if you want this type of souvenir to take with you after seeing the...

This is a MUST visit on your road trip or visit to the Moab area! You could be tempted to drive on by thinking it’s just a tourist trap but you couldn’t be more wrong. My husband and I and our best friend all three stopped and had a great time! First we visited the zoo where you can buy a bucket of feed to feed the animals. They have all kinds of animals including a camel, African watsu (which is huge), emu, alpacas, miniature donkeys, fallow deer, bison and more! Our favorite was their very sweet camel named, Cooper! They will encourage you to even give Cooper a “kiss” by holding the carrot in your mouth and letting him grab it from you. Never thought I would do that with a camel but he was so gentle and loved every carrot you would give him! After visiting their zoo we went into the general store and got the biggest single scoop ice cream cones you’ve ever seen. The ice cream was really good and perfect on the warm and sunny fall day. The grounds of Hole-in-the-wall are really cool and interesting to explore - true Americana! The couple who lived in the House built in the rock are also buried near the back of the property and the display there is very sweet. One can only imagine building a house into that rock back in the early 1900s! Next time we have a chance to go through the Moab area we will definitely be stopping here again. Great for adults...

This was such an amazing place! We found it by accident just driving down the road on the way to the Mesa Arch. The outside has neat old stuff all over. You can walk all around and look at everything. There are a couple little gift stores. The real exciting thing was seeing the 5000 sq ft hole in the rock that is a house. We took the tour and I would really suggest taking the tour and seeing the inside of this house made from blasting out this rock. It was $7.00 and lasted about 11 minutes. It was an awesome tour and the girl was really knowledgable about the house. The stories were all so amazing. The only thing I thought was odd was that when she started to tell a story of how the husband painted a picture of Jesus, she stopped herself and just said her husband painted "this picture" for his wife. She was very religious. We weren't sure why she didnt say "Jesus". It was a picture of Jesus. Everything inside was left exactly as it was in 1974. They dont allow you to take pictures and I'm not sure why. I bought their little book that tells the story of how this rock became a house. It's just a little paper, black and white book. I found some pictures online to post because I thought if you saw these amazing pictures you would want to go see it even more. It is so worth it!! We spent maybe 30-40...