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A town located at the foot of the humongous Porcupine Rim.
Castle Valley is a town in the Castle Valley in southeastern Grand County, Utah, United States. The population was 347 at the 2020 census. The town is approximately 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Moab, near State Route 128.
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This 50-year-old museum specializes in the history of Moab, with exhibits on geology, paleontology, mining, history and anthropology.
Canyonlands Field Institute is an educational nonprofit specializing in informative adventures on the Colorado Plateau. They have day tours of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks as well as rafting or floating adventures on the Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Colorado rivers. Your Ed-Venture with CFI helps support and underwrite their school and youth programs.
Along this nature trail, which requires a moderate 1/2-mile hike, Morrison Formation dinosaur fossils and petrified wood may be seen in a natural setting. The trailhead is in Mill Canyon on a dirt road, accessible by passenger vehicle, off U.S. Highway 191, 13 miles north of Moab, Utah (near mile marker 141).