Thomas and Dick's August 2000 Dinosaur Trip to Utah and Colorado

Dick has been interested in dinosaurs since he was six, after reading Roy Chapman Andrews's All About Dinosaurs. Thomas has been interested in dinosaurs since he was three. August 2 - 6, they traveled through eastern Utah and western Colorado around the Dinosaur Quadrangle and visited dinosaur digs and museums.

Getting Started (169KB)
Utah Field House Of Natural History - Dinosaur Garden (432 KB)
Utah Field House Of Natural History - Dinosaur Garden continued (387 KB)
Utah Field House Of Natural History inside (182 KB)
Going To Dinosaur National Monument (329 KB)
Dinosaur National Monument (417 KB)
Dinosaur National Monument - the Ranch On the Green River (496 KB)
Dinosaur National Monument - Petroglyph Site (328 KB)
Dinosaur National Monument - Petroglyph Details (295 KB)
Dinosaur National Monument - Josie Bassett Morris Cabin (420 KB)
Dinosaur, Colorado (266 KB)
Douglas Pass, Colorado (444 KB)
Dinomation - Fruita, Colorado (205 KB)
Dinosaur Hill - Fruita, Colorado (573 KB)
Welcome (Back) To Utah (402 KB)
The Red Cliffs Along the Colorado River (507 KB)
Rafting On the Colorado River (561 KB)
Dinosaur Tracks On Potash Road (454 KB)
Mill Canyon Dinosaur Fossils (557 KB)
College Of Eastern Utah (316 KB)
Utah Museum Of Natural History (294 KB)

Dick's Contemporaneous Journal of the Trip (12 KB)

Things To Do Differently (3 KB)

Links of interest:
Yahoo! search on Dinosaur Quadrangle
Roadmap Guide to Dinosaur Sites and Museums for Western North America from Coop's Maps (We used this throughout the trip. The map is $6.60 including shipping.)
Karen Strom's Day 12 from Vernal to Moab (She decides to become a palentologist.)
Vernal, Utah
Dinosaur National Monument (National Park Service)
Intermountain Natural History Association (makes donations; operates bookstores)
Eduscapes Mobile Mavericks trips - Dinosaur National Park, including Josie Bassett Morris
Grand Junction, Colorado Chamber of Commerce
Fruita, Colorado
Lynne M. Clos's Field Adventures in Palentology in Fruita
Yahoo! search on Moab Outdoors
Price, Utah
College of Eastern Utah Museum
Utah Museum Of Natural History
University of Utah
Yahoo! search on Salt Lake City, Utah

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