Up close with the fossils (and weather) at Dinosaur National Park - The Denver Post
We were camping in Dinosaur National Monument, a 210,000-acre swath of protected desert and canyonlands, spanning northwest Colorado and northeast Utah. The park, which turned 100 on Oct. 4, is about a six-hour drive from Denver, and because it's so remote, is little-known beyond a few adventure-seeking boaters — and roadtripping, fossil-seeking families like us.
Rafting groups and kayakers come to float the upper stretches of the Green River. The fossil folks come to see dinosaur bones at the Quarry Exhibit Hall, specifically the Carnegie Quarry, an extraordinary Jurassic-period fossil bed containing roughly 1,500 fossils.
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