Town for sale

Roy Pogue is asking $3.9 million for the town of Woodside, Utah. (He won’t say how much he paid for it.)  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

A herd of free-range llamas has kept Roy Pogue company in the otherwise empty town of Woodside, Utah. He’s farmed, ranched and run a gas station here.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The llamas are included in the sale price of Woodside, Utah.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Roy Pogue, 63, steps out of a storage shed in Woodside, Utah, where he has been a one-man sheriff, judge, juror and good Samaritan over the years. Health problems are forcing him to sell.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Motorcyclists pass Woodside, Utah, on Route 6. Tourists used to visit the town for its famous cold-water geyser, now only a trickle.   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Plastic flowers surround markers at the graveyard in Woodside, Utah.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

A shuttered post office and saloon sit by the old gas station in Woodside. One blogger wrote, “Only the bravest of highway travelers venture in to see if anyone is actually there.”   (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)