Price is a small city in Carbon County in eastern Utah, sitting at the edge of the Colorado Plateau roughly two hours southeast of Salt Lake City. It is a working coal-mining town without much tourist gloss, but it punches above its weight for anyone interested in prehistoric life: the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum holds one of the finest collections of dinosaur fossils in the region, including the fearsome Utahraptor and the long-necked Camarasaurus.
The surrounding canyon country offers hiking and off-road exploration in Nine Mile Canyon, which contains one of the longest concentrations of ancient rock art in North America. Price makes a practical base for exploring the remote canyon lands between Moab and the Wasatch Front.