RANGE CREEK

'Range Creek', rising in the Book Cliffs in Emery County, Utah, is a high tributary of the Colorado River, effluent to the Price River near Price, Utah, an affluent of the Green River, a major affluent tributary of the Colorado. The creek is ever-flowing, not subject to drought.
It has been nominated for classification as a National Wild and Scenic River.
The Range Creek canyon has recently become famous because of its pristine archaeological remains of the Fremont culture, a Native-American archaeological culture that was geographically and chronologically adjacent to the Anasazi culture.
The land was owned by a cattle rancher by the name of Waldo Wilcox. He recognized the value of the remains that he saw with his own eyes, and protected it by erecting a gate with "no trespassing" signs on the only road in. In 2001 he sold the property to the State of Utah. State archaeological authorities are developing a plan for carefully protecting and studying the cultural resources of Range Creek. Interest is high due to the undisturbed nature of the site.

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★ Smithsonian, March 2006, "Secrets of the Range Creek Ranch", pp. 68-75.

★ Great Outdoors site

★ State of Utah site

★ Wild river status

★ Wilderness Utah "Finding History in Range Creek"