Friday, November 11, 2011

Day of the Dinosaur! 1

Here is some more on our trip:

So, one of the reasons for the timing of our trip was to go to an exhibit re-opening in Dinosaur National Monument. They have a wall of bones from many different dinosaurs on display. 5 years ago the building was deemed too dangerous to be open to the public and since then they have been refurbishing the building and fixing the many issues (more on this in the next post).

The first day in Dinosaur we went to the Colorado half of the park, just outside Dinosaur, Co…where they even have a Dinosaur speed limit of 25 mph.

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The Harper’s Corner drive is a very pretty one that was newly paved.

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We hiked out to Harper’s Corner where the Yampa and Green rivers meet. The view was great and the rocks were very interesting.

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Magnus made sure to dress accordingly. Here are some ancient sea life fossils in the rock.

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After our hike we headed back to the highway and on to Utah again. We stayed the night in Vernal and visited the temple there. It was a good day.

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