Castle Country - Price Utah Tourism

Welcome to Utah’s Castle Country. Centrally located in the Great State of Utah. We invite you to come and enjoy and experience any time of the year our incredible natural beauty of Utah’s Castle Country.

With hundreds of mountain lakes where you can enjoy some of the best water sports including fishing, canoeing, boating, and skiing. Wide Open Spaces from the mountains to the desert where you can bike, climb, camp, ATV, horseback, and have the ability to RELAX and REFLECT and breathe the fresh air produced by Utah’s Castle Country and be taken back by the bluest of skies and clean air!

The area is dotted with spectacular museums including the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum home of the Utahraptor and the Huntington Mammoth along with Native American exhibits. Visit the Hall of Dinosaurs. You will find a Discovery Area where young ones can uncover their own pottery shards or dig for dinosaur bones. CEU Museum has a rotating art gallery featuring the best of the best artists.

The Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry just south of Price is designated as a National Natural Landmark and contains the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Visit the newly remodeled visitor center with exhibits of monsters that roamed this area millions of years ago.

Visit an outdoor museum where Native American rock art is plentiful in the world-renowned Nine Mile Canyon. This canyon is designated as a scenic back country byway with thousands of ancient pictograph and petroglyph drawings seen on canyon walls, remnants of Indian dwellings, wildlife viewing, hiking and biking trails and more. See many rock art sites also in Range Creek Canyon along with the San Rafael Swell desert.
Call for a schedule of guided tours, (800) 842-0789.

Castle Country is the home of five State Parks including the ever famous Goblin Valley with goblin like rock formations and hiking trails. Scofield State Park offers an abundance of beautiful lush green mountain area to camp, bike, hike and fish Scofield reservoir and enjoy the beautiful blue water. Enjoy golfing at Green River and Millsite State Parks. Huntington State Park offers boating and camping and picnic sites.

The Energy Loop of Huntington and Eccles Canyons National Scenic Byway is where you can see energy resources along the route. It is a road for all seasons with year-round seasonal recreational opportunities, including fishing, hiking, biking, boating, camping, horseback riding and more. Enjoy winter sports of snow kiting, snowmobiling, ice fishing snowshoeing and more. View wild flowers and wildlife. You will be able to walk down into the area where the Mammoth was discovered.

You won’t want to go home after you visit the incredible outdoors of Utah’s Castle Country.