Dinosaur National Monument

Working towards the Pacific Northwest, we spent a night at the Dinosaur National Monument in NW Colorado/NE Utah.

I kept having to remember....."Dinosaurs:Real, Dragons:Mythical" Someone's been watching too much Game of Thrones.

The main attraction at Dinosaur is the preserved outcrops of dinosaur bones that are found in an uplifted layer of sedimentary rock.

Many complete dinosaur skeletons from this site are found in museums and collections throughout the United States.  But the movement to keep the bones in place took over and so the monument was created.

This is an adult tibia of one of the species of dinosaur found at the site!

Throughout the area, as in outside the park in the different towns, one finds statues of dinosaurs.  This is the one I now know by sight, the stegosaurus.

Our tent site by the Green River.

The Dinosaur Monument is also known for petroglyphs.

And amazing geologic formations.  Here's a box canyon.

The evening we spent at Dinosaur, we drove along the long rode into the heart of the monument to the Green River Canyon.

Sunset over the Green River, way in the distance.