· exploring · national monument · park · Dinosaur NM
While staying in Vernal, Utah, we visited Dinosaur National Monument, which spans Utah and Colorado, and has two visitor centers.
We visited both, starting with the the Utah side:
The visitor center:
Relief map:
Up the hill is a separate building with the dinosaur fossils. One can’t drive up there, instead taking a free shuttle:
The quarry visitor center:
The building encloses a wall of dinosaur bone fossils:
Some fossils one can touch:
Then we headed into Colorado:
Canyon Visitor Center:
We had a picnic lunch:
The park has a weird border, with a long road that is part of the park:
(And yes, I was amused by the name of the picnic area.)
This part of the park is mostly about scenic rocks:
