Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry - Price, Utah

Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry: An Awesome Day Trip for Kids. Have you had your fill of tourist traps, water parks, and malls with the kids?  Drop on in to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, located just 30 miles south of Price, Utah.  You can come home with your pockets full of real fossils and stones from the visitor’s center, which beats cotton candy and cheap plastic trinkets any day.  A trip to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry leaves you and your whole family with lasting memories.

While there are many theories, we don’t know what caused so many fossils to be deposited in one spot more than 147 million years ago.  More than 12,000 individual bones, and one fossilized dinosaur egg, have already been recovered from this productive site.  It’s estimated that at least 70 different animals are represented among these fossils.  Archeologists haven’t even come close to reassembling all these bones, but there are complete Allosaur and Stegosaur skeletal reconstructions to view in the Visitor’s Center.  Get ready to crane your necks!

Start your visit to Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in the new Visitor’s Center, which has many new exhibits and a wealth of information. Then, move on to the quarry tour.  The quarry tour takes you on a fascinating trip through a real, working archeological dig, complete with dust and cranes.  

Giant boulders are scattered everywhere throughout the park, so you have plenty of shade when you break open your family picnic.  It’s a one-of-a-kind atmosphere you won’t find anywhere else.  The Rock Walk Nature Trail winds past so many sights you’ll have a hard time keeping track of the kids.  Don’t forget to read the signs along the way, to learn about the spectacular history that’s been unearthed already, and all the history still waiting in the ground.

Call the Cleveland-Lloyd park offices at (435) 636-3600 to find out the park hours on the days when you’d like to visit.  In early spring (March through Memorial Day), the quarry is open weekends.  During the summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day weekend), the park is open daily.  In the fall (Labor Day through October), the park is open weekends only again.  Typical daily hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays noon to 5 p.m.  Call ahead if nasty weather is expected in the spring or fall.

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Price Field Office
125 S. 600 W.
Price, Utah 84501
435-636-3600