Tag: Skyline Drive
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‘Like you’re on top of the world’: A southern Colorado drive of peace and peril
Canon City • A man from Louisiana didn’t know what he’d find on his cross-country drive through Colorado. He had some ideas — Pikes Peak, Vail — but this was a proper adventure, and a proper adventure afforded time and space for surprises. “No destination really,” Bob Roddie said during a stop one recent afternoon.…
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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…