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.

Quarry Makes Major Road Improvements — Summer 2014

Looking NE from Lumber Curve to Windy Corner, new roadbase , much wider than before.

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 …

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Listen to the Hill Truck — Use Radio Scanner

One of the famous hill trucks.

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 …

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Welcome – Let’s Communicate for Safety

Looking southerly up Yule Creek, 'The Lineup'

Hello all, Lou Dawson here. As far as we’re concerned, the more people who enjoy backcountry skiing near Marble, Colorado, the better. It’s a wonderful place, and the word is out. Yet unfortunately, over the past few years we’ve seen what we feel is a degradation in friendliness and sharing by backcountry skiers in the …

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