Marble Quarry Road will be improved during summer of 2015, including chloride and a layer of crushed marble rock.
Category: Parking
Parking on Quarry Road in winter is limited. Carpool if possible and always leave at least 10 feet of road available for the marble hauling truck. Block the road and get towed.
Oct 23
Getready for 2014-15 — Quarry’s Rotary Plow
We wouldn’t have the Quarry Road to use if it wasn’t for Colorado Stone Quarries Inc. doing snow plowing and road repair. Even so, without a rotary the plowing has been problematic as the road becomes narrower and narrower with a blade plow packing the berm against the roadside. We’re thus duly impressed by what …
Jul 16
Quarry Makes Major Road Improvements — Summer 2014
All varieties of backcountry travelers, rejoice. Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. has been spending an immense amount of money and time widening sections of Quarry Road out of Marble, Colorado. They’ve been adding parking, trucking in roadbase and applying chloride to keep the summer dust down. We’ve been watching the work all summer — impressive. This …
Mar 24
Listen to the Hill Truck — Use Radio Scanner
We would not have the Quarry Road for winter use if it wasn’t for the operating Yule Quarry business. Tradeoff is that most weekdays and sometimes on the weekend a huge “hill haul truck” loaded with gigantic blocks of white marble is making multiple runs up and down the mostly one-lane shelf road. We have …
