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.

Merry Christmas 2015!

Christmas day 2015 brings new snow and avalanche danger.

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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