As part of our month-long Colorado road trip, we spent about four days in Dinosaur National Monument but could have happily spent more if not for the worsening smoke from this year’s California wildfires.
One of many canyon overlooks along Yampa Bench Road
Coming from the south, we started with the canyon portion of the park and spent two nights at the Echo Park campground. One day was just biking out along the Yampa Bench Road and checking out many of the amazing river canyon overlooks.
The following day we turned our attention to the dinosaur fossils and petroglyphs in the western part of the park by taking a slow, rough 4WD road to the other side of the park. (Why take the easy way around??)
At the Quarry Exhibit Hall, you can see hundreds of fossilized dinosaur bones still embedded in the rock:
Lots of petroglyphs along Harper’s Corner Road
And we had a close encounter with a pair of bighorn sheep:
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