Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry open for Visitor season

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office
welcomes visitors to the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
which is now open.  The Quarry will be open this spring season on
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  There is a $5 per
adult fee for admission to the site to help cover a portion of the
operating costs.  The restrooms, buildings, and path to the covered quarry
are wheelchair-accessible.  It’s a great place to explore and spend an
afternoon with family and friends.   A Junior Explorer Guide is available on the BLM website.
The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry contains the densest concentration of
Jurassic dinosaur bones in the world.  Since the 1920s, paleontologists
have collected and studied more than 12,000 fossil bones at the quarry. An
*Allosaurus* skeleton watches over the visitor center and educational
display and is just one of the 70 or more dinosaurs that lived and died
here 145 million years ago.  As a visitor, you will have the opportunity to
view a protected part of the quarry, take a self-guided hike, picnic, and
enjoy the towering rock outcrops and vast open landscapes of central Utah.
This season we also have a new Artist in Residence, Jason Huntzinger  whose work
will be featured at the visitor center.   Jason is an award winning
photographer and adjunct professor of art at Utah State University
Eastern.  His unique approach to photography is rooted in the philosophy
that “most of the narrative moves outside the frame, which makes the
mystery.”  Jason’s work has focused on ghost towns of the intermountain
West as well as the unique geologic landscape of eastern Utah.  Originally
from Duluth, Minnesota, he now calls Helper, Utah his home.  Throughout the
spring and summer he may be found exploring and photographing the colorful
badlands and rock features surrounding the visitor center.
To access the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry from Price, drive south
approximately 12 miles on State Highway 10.  Turn left onto State Highway
155, and follow the signs to Elmo for five to six miles. Just east of Elmo,
turn right onto a graded dirt road and follow the signs 12 miles through
the Desert Lake Waterfowl Reserve and on to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur
Quarry. Maps are available at the BLM office in Price. The road to the
quarry is well marked, but there are a number of turns on the dirt road
leading to the visitor center. Visitors may also notice the new “Guardians
of the Gates” – gate sculptures that were created by Nick Frappier and Kate
Kilpatrick-Miller and installed last summer.
For a fun and safe adventure, it’s always a good idea to make sure you have
maps, water, food, proper clothing and let someone know where you are going
when visiting the deserts of southern Utah.