Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the city of Price. The population was 2,201 at the 2010 census.

The city is located along the Price River and U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 191, a shortcut amid Provo and Interstate 70, on the way from Salt Lake City to Grand Junction, Colorado. It is the location of the Western Mining and Railroad Museum, a tourist kinship that afterward contains household and want ad artifacts illustrating late 19th and forward 20th-century perky conditions.

With the arrival of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) in 1881–82, Helper began to produce as a population center. By 1887 the D&RGW had erected some twenty-seven frame residences, with more built forward-looking in the year. The railroad planned to make Helper a freight terminal after the rail lines were misused from narrow to pleasing gauge. The changeover process began in 1889 and was completed in 1891. In 1892, Helper designated the division narrowing between the eastern and western D&RGW terminals in Grand Junction, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, respectively, and a additional depot, hotel, and further buildings were constructed.

On April 21, 1897, Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay robbed the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in easy to get to Castle Gate; they stayed in Helper the morning before. It was said that Butch Cassidy later came encourage to Helper for occasional visits.