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Torrey is a town located on State Route 24 in Wayne County, Utah, United States, 8 miles (13 km) from Capitol Reef National Park. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 182.

The town was received in the 1880s by Mormon settlers, and was initially known as Youngtown, after John Willard Young. The town is generally held to be named after Jay L. Torrey from Pittsfield, Illinois. Torrey was a zealot of the Wyoming legislature, who, upon the advent of the Spanish–American War, achieved national attention by proposing the start of what became three volunteer cavalry regiments, made stirring of cowboys and stockmen. Torrey was commissioned Colonel of the 2nd Regiment, the “Rocky Mountain Riders”; the 1st Regiment, the lonesome regiment to look action, was improved known as the Rough Riders.[citation needed]

Torrey is located upon the north bank of the Fremont River amongst Boulder Mountain to the southwest and Capitol Reef National Park to the east. Teasdale is nearly three miles to the southwest, Grover is very nearly five miles to the southeast and Bicknell is more or less six miles to the northwest. Utah State Route 24 and Utah State Route 12 utility the community.