After setbacks involving water and construction costs, Utahraptor State Park is close to breaking ground.

Since its designation in early 2021, the park has grappled with delays around COVID-19-era construction prices and, mainly, obtaining water.

“That was our biggest hang-up on what took us so long,” said Utahraptor Park Manager Josh Hansen.

Now, however, Utahraptor has drilled one usable well and is ready to start building roads and facilities. “Our water rights are all there,” Hansen said.

The paleontology-focused park 13 miles north of town aims to celebrate the area’s rich fossil deposits, which have yielded over 4,200 individual bones and at least five new dinosaur species, according to the Utah Friends of Paleontology.

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