Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway
Steamboat Rock at Dinosaur National Monument
The Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway is a 480-mile loop tour through the heart of that area in Utah and Colorado that has produced more dinosaur fossils than any other area on the planet. You want to learn about dinosaurs? This is the place. In Veranl is the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, one of the planet's premier dinosaur bones, fossils, eggs, artifact showcases. East of Vernal is Dinosaur National Monument, an area where so many dinosaurs fossils have been found. South of Wellington where you'll find the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, another extensive cache of dinosaur remnants.
The list below contains only a few of the attractions found in the area of the Dinosaur Diamond. So you can drive the loop in 10 or 12 hours... or spend a couple weeks seeing and visiting everything. It's all up to you...
Ashley National Forest
Canyon Pintado
Canyonlands National Park
Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum
Colorado National Monument
Copper Ridge Dinosaur Trackway Site
Dan O'Laurie Museum of Moab
Dead Horse Point State Park
Dewey Suspension Bridge
Dinosaur Hill
Dinosaur Journey Museum
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur Quarry of Dinosaur National Monument
Fisher Towers Recreation Area
Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway
Green River State Park
Matrimony Springs Pterosaur Tracks
McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area
Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail
Mygatt-Moore Quarry
Negro Bill's Canyon
Newspaper Rock
Nine Mile Canyon Backway
Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
Potash-Lower Colorado River Scenic Byway
Red Fleet State Park
Riggs Hill
Slickrock Bike Trail
Starvation State Park
Steinaker State Park
Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway
Utah Field House of Natural History
Western Mining and Railroad Museum
Dinosaur bones emdedded in the wall at the Dinosaur Quarry, Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway area map
Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway
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