Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles northwest of the city of …Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles 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 between 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 attraction that also contains household and commercial artifacts illustrating late 19th and early 20th-century living conditions.