San Juan County is located in the unique area known as the Colorado Plateau. We are the largest county in Utah and the second largest in the United States with 7,884 square miles or 5.2 million acres. The ownership of the county is extremely slanted toward the Federal Government. This is an extremely low amount of acreage for a county in which farming and other agricultural endeavors makes up the main industry for our citizens. In the 1990 census population of the county was 12,621 persons.
Few counties offer such a wide variety of landscape and rich panorama.
You are surrounded by canyons, deserts, lakes and mountains. All you need do is stay in one of our communities to learn about who we are and why we live in this isolated but beautiful area. San Juan County has been classed as the most scenic in Utah. San Juan County not only offers a variety of recreational activities from hiking, horseback riding, fishing, boating and skiing to jeeping, mountain biking, and repelling. We also enjoy very distinct and beautiful seasons.