Range Creek

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For the river in Texas, see Range Creek (Texas).

Range Creek, rising in the Book Cliffs in Emery County, Utah, is a high tributary of the Colorado River, effluent to the Price River near Price, Utah, an affluent of the Green River, a major affluent tributary of the Colorado. The creek is ever-flowing, not subject to drought.

It has been nominated for classification as a National Wild and Scenic River.

The Range Creek canyon has recently become famous because of its pristine archaeological remains of the Fremont culture, a Native-American archaeological culture that was geographically and chronologically adjacent to the Anasazi culture.

The land was owned by a crusty cattleman by the name of Waldo Wilcox. He recognized the value of the remains that he saw with his own eyes, and protected it by erecting a gate with "no trespassing" signs on the only road in. Now safely in the custody of the State of Utah, the archaeologists are in near-nirvana over the undisturbed nature of the site.

The Utah archaeological authorities are developing a plan for carefully protecting and studying the site.