Museum personnel have scheduled public tours on May 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31, and June 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9. No tours will be held June 1 and 8. Tours are offered WEATHER PERMITTING - if the field crew is not working due to weather conditions there will not be tours. Look for signs just off of Highway 24 detailing whether the quarry tours are operating each day.

Tours will start on the hour, every hour from, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will last approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Groups will be limited to a maximum of 25 people per tour. All visitors must sign in. Temperatures may be in the upper 90's, visitors should carry water. There are no developed facilities located at the quarry site.

The Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry is located approximately ten miles northwest of Hanksville, Utah. The road to the site is native surfaced and is not maintained for passenger cars. High clearance vehicles and four-wheel drive may be necessary during and after storm events.

This is the third season that paleontologists from the Burpee Museum of Rockford, Illinois have conducted excavations at the site. The quarry has yielded at least four long-necked sauropods, two carnivorous dinosaurs and a possible herbivorous, stegosaurus. The Hanksville-Burpee site is 145-150 million years old. Located in a preserved river channel, the quarry contains the fossilized remains of multiple dinosaur skeletons, animal burrows and large petrified tree trunks.

For more information regarding the site, please call or visit the BLM office in Hanksville, Utah at, 380 South 100 West, (435) 542-3461.