The DARK Side of Living in the Real Life "UP" House | S1E51

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Jun 13, 2025
I went to visit the real life Up House.. but it wasn't quite as idyllic as one might expect..
Alright, I should get out of here. There's
Yeah, this this family they had her daughter
Cross into the driveway with a clear sign that says private property there and the lady came out instantly as soon as
As soon as they walked onto the property, so
My journey begins at North America's most northern drivable point
The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe from there
I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia
New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey
I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across North America
Good morning from Wendover, Utah
I'm quite excited for today because we're gonna go visit the up house that
You know the house from the movie up. Yes. Someone's built it over by Salt Lake City and
I gotta go see it. That sounds so cool. And then after the up house, we're gonna head southwest
into the bush
into an area called nine mile Canyon and this is really beautiful red rock Canyon and
Apparently it's filled with ancient paintings. So it should be a pretty cool day. So let's get on the bike and get going
Okay
Leaving Wendover
And heading towards
Provo I guess just south of Salt Lake
I'm pretty curious about this
up house like it looks like it's in like a residential neighborhood and
It must get so many visitors. I
wonder if it's a newer thing because it
It doesn't have a ton of reviews yet
But the neighbors just must be so annoyed that people are coming all the time to visit this house
And then I also like because you know, like a movie house often isn't
Designed to make sense, right? Like there might be big gaps in the walls like the floor out
The floor layout may not make sense
All this kind of stuff
So I'm wondering like how they matched it to the movie like is it exactly like the movie
And can I fly a drone there
The neighbors was like it must be annoyed
Just drones flying around all the time. I don't know
Anyways, I got a little ways to go here
You see driving halfway across the state
This truck is
Creating some wind disturbances
But yeah, I guess we're driving through the salt flat now, it's just
Over to the left of me is where where I wrote out on the salt flat
But the highway basically goes right through the middle of it
All right, so the up house is on the other side of those mountains
So I'm gonna take a little canyon road that goes in between those mountains
Toll booth ahead
Hi
Can I drive all the way through to Salt Lake?
Okay, so I got to pay the toll to do that
Okay
Oh, gotcha
Okay
Okay, all right, thank you
Oops, oh, well that was nice of her
It's pretty
It's very pretty
Oh, I think we're getting to gravel here
Sounds great
To be honest, I thought it was gonna be paved the whole way but it's not and I'm happy about that
Temperatures definitely dropping up here
All colors are really coming out here
Oh, I'm gonna guess we're at the top then
Oh and it's taped up here. Oh
Yeah, there we go, that's cool
Somewhere down there is the up house
All right
Totally blind. They want me to go by but it's totally fine
Thank you. Oh
It is pretty in here though
Okay, there's a big mine on this
All right, it's colorful
All right, I gotta figure out where to go now
Let's see
The real life up house. Yeah, it's just right here eight minutes away. Haha. I
Came the perfect way
We've come out into a big subdivision, all right, this is
I'm really curious. I'm super interested
It's the weekend too. So I don't know it can be busy getting crazy
Gonna be nobody there. I don't know
okay, right turn here and
It's gonna be straight ahead on the right. Oh
My god, there it is
So cool, oh
Wow
If you limit your stay to three minutes
Hello
All right, I get a good shot of this
On that sign it says you can reserve a photo shoot or something like this. Oh
Oh
there you go
some other people they had their kids come in front and
Lady came out and kicked him out
Yeah, I don't know they may not realize how much attention their house would get
All right. I should probably get going cuz for them. I think it must be chaos
All right, I should get out of here this
Yeah, this this family they had her daughter
Crossed into the driveway with the clear sign that says private property there and the lady came out instantly as soon as
as soon as they walked on to the property, so
it's
It must be a bit intense
beautiful house though, but
Yeah, yeah, if you can do something like that people are really definitely gonna come so
okay, I need some lunch and
I
Don't get many opportunities to go to In-N-Out Burger. So I'm just gonna go to In-N-Out Burger
Bye-bye up house
This one's quite beautiful, too
but
Yeah, it must just be insane cuz you know, like they have it listed on Google Maps
So part of them must want people to come
but
Don't know
they literally built a house from probably one of the most famous Pixar movies and
Yeah, look at that thing. It's
It's really beautiful, it's really beautiful
And it really looks like like the movie. So but yeah, I just
When you do something like this like and you make something that people are interested in people come
They want to see they want to get more they want to you know
But yeah, though so those people they live in that house
And they cannot escape the crowd and then the neighbors I don't know
maybe it's not too bad, but I
Was one of two groups there when I was there, so I don't know what it's like, but oh
I'd be really curious to
See like read an interview or something with the homeowners or even the neighbors
Just to see what it's like
Because that lady came out as soon as that girl walked into the property
So she was watching, you know, she's like, oh there's people inside and I could imagine if it may feel like
You're a prisoner in your own home, right? Like
You're always looking outside
Maybe you always feel like you have to protect it
these kind of things
anyways in an out burger and
an out burger
You know every single one I've been to always has a massive line for the drive-thru
They're really popular
Look at that that lines going right into the street. Oh
Yeah
Get up front parking right here
Good, how are you?
No problem, I'll get a double double with fries and a coke
Sure
Well, thank you
It's me, thank you
So the thing with In-N-Out is that it's just really solid. You've probably had a better burger. You've probably had better fries
But In-N-Out's just like really consistent and it's fresh and it's yeah, it's just really solid burger I'd say
It is really good actually
If you're from the southwestern states, you've probably had In-N-Out before
but if you're from anywhere else, you've probably heard of it, but you haven't had it and
For me if I'm gonna be in the area where there isn't In-N-Out, I gotta have it so
All right, that was tasty
Let's head to Nine Mile Canyon and have a look at those petroglyphs
The ancient stone rock paintings
All right, on to Manassas Highway
So I was having lunch I looked up a little bit more backstory about where the Uphouse
It's a form of income for them. So
Basically, they're selling photo shoots there
So basically you can do wedding photos there or you know
private photos or whatever
So the other thing I found out is that the owners didn't actually build it
So it was another guy, I guess his developer
He built it and then apparently they had a lot of people that are interested in buying as well
So the people that did end up buying it are apparently big Disney fans
So it became a bit of a fantasy for them
Oh, look at that highway, oh boy
This is kind of scary actually
One, two, three, four, five, I mean six-lane highway
Definitely the biggest highway I've ever been on, in this bike at least
I guess that was cheaper than a tunnel
Starting to change, starting to get those red rocks
Southern Utah, it's kind of nice, isn't it?
All right, here's our turn off, things should start to get a little more interesting now
Oh yes, nobody goes this way, perfect
Missing the corner, nice, gravel
I don't know if you guys could see that, there's a lightning. Oh, and I wonder if it's gonna rain
Yeah
The road is a bit wet at the moment. It's not really, it's raining a little bit I guess
Am I getting into trouble here?
It smells like rain too
If it really starts
I don't know
If it really starts to rain, I have to maybe stop and put the tent up
Definitely, there's definitely raining over there. I can see it falling from the sky
Oh, this is gonna get interesting I think, isn't it?
From a six-lane highway into
gravel road thunderstorm
I wonder what the cow is thinking
Oh God, the road is, oh God, the road is scary
It's like powder, but it doesn't look like powder because it's been rained on
So I'm making a right turn and I'm heading towards that cloud, I'm not sure what's gonna happen here
Oh God, you silly
Oh, it's paved again, but I'm having, I'm thinking now I'm gonna have to camp
Oh, it's raining now
I think I'm getting hailed on too actually
It hurts
But I'm thinking I should stop somewhere and camp but
Kind of debating whether to keep going through the storm. Oh, it looks way lighter over there. Maybe I should keep going
Okay, so the sign there, it says there's a campground of 5.9 miles, so maybe I'm gonna head there
Nine Mile Canyon Ranch, where is it?
It's not that, is it?
Is it this?
Let me check my phone
Okay, I guess we're on the ranch now and it's just up the road to camping
Look at that
It's getting dark though
Nine mile, nine mile ranch, campground, lodging, perfect
Hello
Hi, do you have reservation?
No
Do you need one?
And I don't know, do I?
Oh, I don't know, do you want to camp?
Yeah, I do
Oh, okay, I just didn't know if you had reservation
I was gonna tell you to go ahead and go down there
But no, go ahead and pull up there
And I'll go lock these up and then I'll meet you up there at the house
Okay, sounds good
We'll get you a camp spot
Cool, thank you
It was definitely interesting setting up the tent in that
Kind of on off again, rain
And wind
Yeah, just a little chaotic
And we're a little late to
Check out the petroglyphs, so we'll do that in the next video
So thanks for watching
And hopefully I'll see you in the next video
