Caslte Country now Boasts 2 Strategically Located MP3 Edition Information Stations

The Huntington Canyon Scenic Byway and Eccles Canyon Scenic Byway comprise the 86-mile "energy loop," now broadcast this interesting history:

From bone quarry to coal mining ghost town to manmade reservoir, the Energy Loop is a montage of land use for the past and the present, amidst a unique and beautiful landscape. Rugged mountains, pine forests, and blue reservoirs found there, sprinkled with occasional remnants of days gone by.

A historian of energy might well begin at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry and study the ancient life that formed fossil fuels. The densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur bones ever found is located at this quarry, a few miles east of Huntington, Utah.

At the Quarry Visitor Center you can see a complete Allosaur skeletal reconstruction and a Stegosaur wall mount. Other dinosaur museums along the Byway include the one in Price at the College of Eastern Utah and the Museum of San Rafael in Castle Dale. The name Energy Loop bespeaks the coal mining industry that once provided an economic base for multiple communities along this Byway. Still in operation, the Skyline Mine in Eccles Canyon extracts approximately five million tons of coal per year. However, the remains of many ghost towns that died with the slowdown in the coal industry in the mid-1900s can still be seen today.

Learn how coal was mined in 1900 and how the railroad and mining industries worked together to get this energy source to cold and hungry customers on this byway.

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