Category: Quarry Road

Yule Quarry road is a one-lane dirt shelf-road that is maintained 100 percent by the Marble, Colorado stone quarry company.

Summer 2015 — Road Improvements

Concrete erosion plugs at Shale Bluffs, installed spring of 2015.

Marble Quarry Road will be improved during summer of 2015, including chloride and a layer of crushed marble rock.

Marble Quarry Road — Holiday Closure 2014-2015

The snow "stake" or "snow board" is marked every 4 inches (10 centimeters).

According to sources: Colorado Stone Quarries will not plow Quarry Road for about 14 days over the holidays; they do not plan on plowing the road until just before they re-open on Jan. 3rd. In our experience here at Marbleski, the road may remain drivable for a short while, then become so rutted and deep …

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Getready for 2014-15 — Quarry’s Rotary Plow

Check out the Volvo L110F compact loader that'll be pushing a loader mounted R.P.M. Tech LM220

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 …

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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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