We got a delightful, scenic campsite, #30, in the Green River Campground in Dinosaur National Monument. Cost $9/night due to my park pass for a half price discount. The only amenities were a fire ring, picnic table, a water faucet by the restroom, and flush toilets. I put up the tent and we walked over to the Green River. It was running high since this was still the snowmelt run-off season. I started picking up a few sticks for our campfire. I try to avoid buying campfire wood and haven’t done it yet!
The sights we visited during the two days there (May 11-13) included several petroglyph rocks, an amazing pioneer homestead, a box canyon, a huge split rock formation (photo above), and the dinosaur bone quarry. The later being an incredible, large, tilted rock, housed in a building. All across the face of the rock are hundreds of dinosaur fossil bones from many species. The quarry is a spectacular collection, that was probably not fun for the animals who presumably all died in close proximity to each other 150 million years ago and were swept into the pile we see today! It is definitely a worthwhile park to visit.
As we passed through Vernal, Utah, the nearest town of any size, I had to snap a picture of Dinah.
She is a tall, pink dinosaur on the east side of town. One of America’s great kitschy roadside attractions!
The sights we visited during the two days there (May 11-13) included several petroglyph rocks, an amazing pioneer homestead, a box canyon, a huge split rock formation (photo above), and the dinosaur bone quarry. The later being an incredible, large, tilted rock, housed in a building. All across the face of the rock are hundreds of dinosaur fossil bones from many species. The quarry is a spectacular collection, that was probably not fun for the animals who presumably all died in close proximity to each other 150 million years ago and were swept into the pile we see today! It is definitely a worthwhile park to visit.
As we passed through Vernal, Utah, the nearest town of any size, I had to snap a picture of Dinah.
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