Dinosaur Park

Friday, April 4, we met Alan and Joan Phillips from Wales and asked them what they wanted to see, that they hadn't seen in Utah. They wanted to see a ski resort, and the dinsoaur bones near Vernal.

We first stopped at Park City to take a view of the ski resort.

We next drove to vernal and visited the Dinosaur Monument. The quarry where dozens of fossils are visible, was closed due to instabilty of the structure covering it. To see any bones, we had to take a 1.5 mile hike through the hills, and canyons of the dinosaur National Monument. The fossilized bones were hard to spot, because they are camoflouged by the surrounding rock. We finally spotted this bone first.

The bone is a thigh bone of an Allosaurus, and is angled down and to the left of my hand. It is about twice as long as my arm.

Here, Alan and Joan are touching a leg bone. I don't know if it is a thigh bone of a smaller dinosaur, or the humerus (upper leg bone).

Inside this crevice is the fossil of the spine of a dinosaur.

Alan and Joan standing in front of a replica of the leg bones of an Allosaurus.

This is a picture of the campground next to the Green River. The mountain in the background is called Split Mountain. It is a huge dome of snadstone that the Green River slowly cut in two. Seeing the granduer of the mountain, and the smallness of the campground gave me the desire to campout in the south of Utah somewhere.

Alan in front of a panel of petroglyphs.