The Gem Hunt
America decides what makes the map.
Every state has a spot the algorithms miss — the one locals send strangers to. Name it. Vote on the finalists. The winners get built into Roamward, the scenic road-trip app that proves you actually went. No download required to play.
Nominate
What does Utah do better than anywhere?
One hidden gem — a place a chatbot would never know. The most-named spots become finalists, and the crowd votes the winner into Roamward.
Vote
Utah gems, most-loved first
- 1Spiral JettyRobert Smithson's 1,500-foot coil of black basalt curls into the pink-tinged shallows of the Great Salt Lake's remote northern shore, reached by a long gravel road past Golden Spike.
- 2Mystic Hot SpringsUp in little Monroe, mineral water bubbles into a row of vintage cast-iron bathtubs perched on a travertine hillside, each one stained orange by decades of soaking — reserve ahead.
- 3Goblin Valley State ParkA whole desert basin of squat, mushroom-shaped sandstone hoodoos that look like a goblin army frozen mid-march, out in the San Rafael badlands near Hanksville, where you can roam off-trail.
- 4Hole N' The RockFifteen miles south of Moab, a 5,000-square-foot, 14-room home one couple spent a dozen years dynamiting out of a solid sandstone cliff, with a kitschy guided tour and a petting zoo out back.
- 5Gilgal Sculpture GardenTucked behind houses in a Salt Lake City neighborhood, a quiet half-acre of one man's stone dreams — a sphinx wearing Joseph Smith's face and boulders engraved with scripture — free and strange.
- 6Carl's Critter GardenA free, gloriously oddball yard of metal critters and dinosaurs welded from old car parts and scrap, on Hanksville's main drag — a perfect leg-stretch between Capitol Reef and Goblin Valley.
- 7Fremont Indian State ParkBuilt when crews carving I-70 unearthed the largest known Fremont village, this overlooked central-Utah park pairs an artifact museum with nearly 700 rock-art panels along easy trails near Sevier.
- 8Sun TunnelsFour giant concrete cylinders sit alone on the Great Basin hardpan near the ghost town of Lucin, aligned to frame the solstice sunrise and sunset while pinholes scatter constellations inside — a remote land-art pilgrimage.
- 9Crystal Hot SpringsThis low-key northern-Utah soak in tiny Honeyville claims one of the highest mineral contents of any hot spring on earth, with hot and cold springs side by side, just off I-15.
- 10Spring CityA whole town on the National Register in the Sanpete Valley, where 19th-century Mormon pioneer homes and stone barns sit so well-preserved the place feels like a living open-air museum off US-89.
Not your state’s turn yet?
Want Roamward to map Utah next?
Add your vote — the loudest state gets mapped first.
How it works
Nominate
Drop the most underrated spot in your state — the gem an itinerary generator would never surface.
The crowd ranks it
Name a place someone already nominated and it rises. The most-loved gems become the state’s finalists.
Vote the winner in
Finalists go to a public vote. Winners get built into Roamward — credited to the people who found them.
Go verify it
Drive it, GPS-verify the stop, earn the badge, and share the map that proves you were first.
Don’t miss the winners
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