Triassic Wash Petroglyphs

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.8 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5582 - 5625 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Dinosaur Quarry Rd. mm 1.3
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

Triassic Wash is a nice little petroglyph site that is located just outside of the Jurassic National Monument, formerly the Cleveland/Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, near Elmo, Utah. All vehicles should be able to drive to within 3/4 of a mile of the petroglyphs and those with a little more ground clearance can get even closer.

Concretion Spheres

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5395 - 5472 feet
Cellphone: 0-2 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Drill Road
Fee: none
Attractions: Cannonball concretions

There is a very interesting and somewhat unusual site along the road leading from Highway 191 to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry that has a number of large concretion spheres that are as much as 8 or 9 feet in diameter. We originally created a Youtube slideshow back in 2014 that has been drawing enough views that we thought it was worth creating a post for the site. Besides that we have received emails asking where it was so here is what we've got.

Raptor Point/Rim Walk

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 2.9 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5737 - 5936 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hr. 15 mins.
Trailhead: Cleveland-Lloyd Visitor Center
Fee: $5/adult (or Interagency Pass) - Youth under 16 free
Attractions: Dinosaur quarry, museum

The Raptor Point and Rim Walk trails are located at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry about 30 miles south of Price, Utah. Both trails can be hiked together or the Raptor Point trail, which is the shorter of the 2, can be hiked by itself. The Raptor Point trail leads to a spot overlooking the quarry and Visitor Center while the Rim Walk trail continues along the edge of the mesa overlooking the entrance road. Both trails help to acquaint hikers with the geology of the area where dinosaur bones are found.

Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.4 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5740 - 5766 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Visitor Center
Fee: $5/adult (or Interagency Pass), Youth under 16 free
Attractions: Dinosaur quarry, wheelchair accessible

The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is located about 30 miles south of Price, Utah. Paleontologists have excavated over 12,000 bones, belonging to at least 74 individual dinosaurs, making this the densest concentration of Jurassic-age dinosaur bones ever found. More than 65 museums worldwide have skeletons that were reproduced from Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur remains. And, besides all the dinosaur bones, they have also found an actual fossil dinosaur egg. The whole visit is worth seeing a novelty like that.

Rock Walk

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 1.6 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5668 - 5778 feet
Cellphone: 0-1 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Visitor Center
Fee: $5/adult - Youth under 16 free
Attractions: Dinosaur fossils, museum

The Rock Walk is one of the hiking trails located at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry about 30 miles south of Price, Utah. The trail makes a loop around the washes below the Visitor Center and quarry site passing an in situ dinosaur fossil enroute. The trail is interpretive in nature with various facts of interest pointed out at numbered locations along the route.