Anasazi State Park Museum
Personal Notes
This page presents our personal notes on our visits to the Anasazi State Park Museum in Utah.
I had first visited the Coombs site back in 1971, when there were no buildings and the archaeologists were still trenching. The site was pretty desolate and open, other than a few tall cottonwood trees and, if I remember correctly, there was some sort of a trailer set up as a headquarters. No one was working the site on the day we visited, but we carefully poked around and looked things over, without, of course, disturbing a thing.
Over the years I have passed by the site and park on several occasions. Usually we don't stop, but we have visited once or twice. It is a small park, with a lot of history.
There are not camping facilities or hiking trails within the Park itself, but there are locations up on Boulder Mountain and out along the Burr Trail, and to the south in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and at Calf Creek where you can camp. There are also trails in those area.
Anasazi State Park does have a wonderfully shaded picnic area, and restrooms inside of the museum.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
2004 Canyon Country Tour
1:12 p.m.
We stopped at the Calf Creek Overlook and took a few photos, then drove across The Hogback, where the cliffs fall off on either side of the highway into deep sandstone canyons below. Then we drove through Boulder, Utah and stopped at the Anasazi State Park for lunch and to look around.
The cost was $4.00 per person for the self-guided tour. But before we viewed the site, we enjoyed a picnic lunch out under the trees on the nice green lawn.
After lunch we toured the few archaeological sites in the park and looked through the museum and used the rest rooms. I had first visited this site in 1971 when the archaeologists were still trenching and there were no buildings here. The excavations are not extensive, but they do have a nicely constructed life size model of a pueblo. And the museum has some wonderful artifacts.
2:37 p.m.
We left Anasazi State Park and headed north out of Boulder, up onto Boulder Mountain.
