Dinosaur National Monument

A last minute decision to escape the cold and the clouds at Flaming Gorge led (1-hour south) to a beautiful day with better weather in Dinosaur National Monument. Bad weather, along with everything else, happens for a reason. This place is beautiful and so much more than just a fossil bone quarry! I could hear the Jurassic Park theme song playing in my head as I hiked around and waited for a stegosaurus to come lumbering up to the creek! This monument has everything from pictographs, petroglyphs, hiking, camping, rafting, dwellings from the early 1900s, and of course, DINOSAUR BONES!

Straddling the border of Utah and Colorado, the park’s Quarry Visitor Center is on the west side of the monument in Jensen, Utah. Although beautiful, there are NO dinosaur bones on the Colorado side of the monument so choose wisely (Utah) as there will not be enough time to leisurely visit both sides in the same day. I would recommend starting with the Quarry Visitor Center to fill your water, pick up a map, get yourself a fridge magnet and view the exquisite gallery of dinosaur drawings compliments of visiting children and a trusty box of colored pencils!

Cub Creek, Dinosaur National Monument

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