Dinosaur National Monument

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:

Dinosaur model

Sign

The visitor center:

Visitor center

Visitor center

Relief map:

Relief map

Relief map

Visitor center

Visitor center

Up the hill is a separate building with the dinosaur fossils. One can’t drive up there, instead taking a free shuttle:

Shuttle

Shuttle

The quarry visitor center:

Quarry visitor center

The building encloses a wall of dinosaur bone fossils:

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Info sign

Panorama

Display

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Some fossils one can touch:

Dinosaur fossils

Selfie

Dinosaur

Then we headed into Colorado:

Colorado

Sign

Canyon Visitor Center:

Canyon Visitor Center

Canyon Visitor Center

Relief map

We had a picnic lunch:

Picnic

The park has a weird border, with a long road that is part of the park:

Map

(And yes, I was amused by the name of the picnic area.)

This part of the park is mostly about scenic rocks:

Rocks

Info sign

Road

Info sign

View

Flowers

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