1886 Map of Price River

About this map

The Denver and Rio Grande Western RR cuts through the heart of this landscape, tracing the descent from Castle Gate into the expansive Castle Valley. Surveyed during the era of major Western exploration by the Powell Survey, the map captures early settlements like Price and Castle Dale before the full expansion of the regional coal industry. The geography is dominated by a succession of dramatic plateaus and escarpments, including the Roan or Book Cliffs and the Brown Plateau, which separate the northern canyons from the Gunnison Valley to the south.