Deep in Utah’s desert near Moab lies one of America’s strangest hidden communities. Known as Rockland Ranch, or “The Rock”, the settlement is home to dozens of families living inside cave-like homes carved into sandstone cliffs. The homes were blasted into the mountainside with dynamite during the 1970s. Over time, the isolated religious community grew into a self-sustaining settlement where hundreds of children have been raised. Solar panels, livestock and wells help support daily life. To outsiders, the ranch looks almost unreal. Part underground city and part survivalist colony, it remains hidden within Utah’s vast red-rock landscape.
