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Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum, located in Blanding, Utah, is a museum and Native American archaeological site.
Visiting
It costs US$5 to visit Edge of the Cedars State Park (as of September 2023). It’s open daily from 9am to 5pm March through November and 9am to 3pm the rest of the year.
Museum
The museum contains an impressively large collection of Ancestral Puebloan pottery. Other artifacts, such as knives, sandals, and arrowheads are also on display.
The museum contains a research center and is a repository for all archaeological finds on public lands in southeast Utah. It opened in 1978, just a few years after the state park was established.
Archaeological Site
Behind the museum is the archaeological site, where a village inhabited by the Puebloan people once stood. It’s estimated that the area was inhabited from 825 to 1225. There’s a paved path around the archaeological site and a ruined stone structure.
A ladder on the structure allows visitors to climb down into a kiva.
Also on the site is a sculpture made by Joe Pachak that also works as a solar marker.
Before leaving the park, we walked inside a small circular hut made out of wood and mud.
