Tag: Dinosaur Ridge
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The legend of Rooney Ranch, a Colorado landmark refusing to fade seven generations later
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MORRISON • In his cowboy boots and cowboy hat that refuses to budge against the fierce wind, Randy Rooney is making his way up a familiar hill when he stops at something else familiar. “That’s elk,” he says at the evidence on the ground. “Before…
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‘A connection across time’: Colorado attraction is home to world-famous dinosaur discoveries, hundreds of tracks and fossils
Dinosaur Ridge, located just west of Denver, is celebrating 50 years as a National Natural Landmark. Long before that designation, the treasures encased by the Dakota and Morrison formations had achieved world-wide acclaim: hundreds of footprints and bones of prehistoric beasts, among them the first stegosaurus known to mankind. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…