Grafton, Ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States

Grafton is a ghost town on the south bank of the Virgin River in Washington County, Utah. Its surviving buildings include a white church, a schoolhouse, the Russell Home, the Louisa Foster Home and the John Wood home, restored by the Grafton Heritage Partnership after 1997. The townsite also holds a cemetery with between 74 and 84 graves, many without headstones.

The settlement was founded in 1859 by Mormon pioneers who came to farm the land along the Virgin River. Over the following decades, repeated flooding made the site increasingly hard to live in, and residents eventually left for higher ground upstream.

New Grafton was named after Grafton, Massachusetts, the settlers' home town, after the first site, Wheeler, was destroyed by the Virgin River flood of January 1862. The cemetery holds between 74 and 84 graves, many without headstones; the Berry grave recalls the family killed in 1866 during the Black Hawk War. The Mormon branch closed in 1921, which is usually taken as the end of the town.

Getting there requires driving on gravel roads, so a sturdy vehicle is a good idea before heading out. There are no services on site, so bring water and wear shoes suitable for walking on uneven ground.

The 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid used Grafton as a filming location, making it one of the few ghost towns to appear in a major Hollywood production. Despite being close to Zion National Park, the site sees far fewer visitors than the park itself.