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Rock Art – Price URARA Symposium

URARA Symposium

Price, Utah is the ideal location to stay while touring the famous rock art of Nine Mile Canyon in Carbon County, the San Rafael Swell and Range Creek in Emery County. That is the reason the 2011 URARA Symposium will be held in Price.

The 2011 URARA Symposium is going to be in Price at the Carbon County Events Center. Presentations will be on Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25. There will also be field trips Friday, September 23 and Monday, September 26. These field trips are most likely filled by now, but you can find more details at http://www.utahrockart.org

Camping will be available at the Carbon County Events Center parking lot. You can set up in the parking lots that are located southeast of the Events Center. There are restrooms nearby that will be open for campers. By the way, Camping is free.

Social Events at the Price Symposium
The opening reception, co-hosted with the Nine Mile Coalition, will be on Thursday, September 22, at the CEU Museum in Price. There will be a watermelon social on the evening of Friday, September 23, in Pioneer Park. The Saturday banquet and auction will be at the Carbon County
Events Center on Saturday night, September 24. The Carbon County Country Club will cater the banquet. An informal social will be held Sunday night, September 25, at Pioneer Park.

This should be a great event for anyone that is interested in Rock Art and a chance to learn more about Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon and other sites that are local to Price, Utah.

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Posted by Admin - August 24, 2011 at 7:16 am

Categories: News and Events Tags: Nine Mile Canyon, Range Creek, San Rafael Swell, URARA

Range Creek – The Secret Canyon

Range Creek

Also Called “The Secret Canyon” was home a large number of Fremont Indians who disappeared about 800 years ago.

Range Creek Canyon is open to the public this year from May 15 through November 30, 2011. Access to Range Creek Canyon is administered by the Range Creek Field Station staff, under the direction of the Utah Museum of Natural History.

If you want to visit Range Creek you will need to purchase a seasonal permit for $1.00 per person. Permits are required for all public visitors over the age of five.

The area known as Range Creek Canyon is limited to pedestrian and horse traffic. In order to protect the canyon lands, maximum of 28 public visitors is permitted per day.

Range Creek Canyon is open for public use this year from May 15 until November 30, 2011. For up to date information you may want to visit the University of Utah Web Site.

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Posted by Admin - August 23, 2011 at 3:56 pm

Categories: Utah, Western Pic's Tags: Range Creek, Range Creek Canyon

San Rafael Rafting Trip

I don’t know if I ever told you about my San Rafael rafting trip. I signed up for the trip through Carbon County Recreation…. the trip was a disaster but I got a few good pictures to take home!

I don’t even know how to swim so I was a little nervous about going on rafting trip in the first place. So, you can imagine my surprise when I showed up for the San Rafael rafting trip and found out that they decided to change it to a canoe trip.

This is the start of a really bad story, and yes I did end up in the San Rafael River several times. Somehow I got paired up with a crazy old man that thought it was funny to tip the boat every time he get a chance.

The San Rafael trip wasn’t my favorite trip, in fact I was scared to death most of the time. I put my camera in a zip lock bag for protection, and that worked out pretty well. By the end of the trip my camera was the only thing that I had that was dry.