Rockhounding Country

In the giant sprawling metropolis known Cedar City you can find endless day and night excitement. From our very immense skyscrapers also known as Motel 6 and Comfort Inn etc. to our enormous university of nearly 7,000 students. Some of our many night time activities include walking around Walmarts' many exciting aisles to dreaming in your bed. What Cedar City lacks in size and amenities it grossly replaces with its endless forests and geological formations. Within a half hour you can drive to the deep red cliffs known as Cedar Breaks National Monument, an hour and a half you can drive to Zion, one of the most amazing US National Parks that is being preserved today, or if you prefer Bryce Canyon, and Great Basin National parks two and a half hours from town as well as the Grand Canyon not very much farther. With so much geology and very small cities, Southern Utah makes for one of the greatest rock hounding sites in the country and quit possibly the world. The very local hills to us contain more Iron than you could imagine and I was told some of it is pure enough that you can weld directly to it. In and around these massive man made craters (Iron queries) just 20 minutes west of Cedar City on Highway 56 you can find not only some very nice chunks of iron but also some really nice pieces of Galena, Iron Oxide Crystals, which are very nice brown colored crystals and one of my favorites, Amethyst, as well as many other very nice crystals and rocks. While you are there try to find a query with a lake at the bottom, the water is on of the most amazing blue-green turquoise color you could think of. If you get bored some weekend and want something fun to do try to find this spot and go explore as much as you can. Keep checking back for more blogs about my trips to some of the best rock hounding places I have found as well as some of the best geologic formations around Southern Utah.