Dinosaur Ridge
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It is a 2024 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Awards Winner and part of the Morrison-Golden Fossil Areas National Natural Landmark. A world-class dinosaur tracksite with more than 250 dinosaur footprints to explore. The tracks were made during the Cretaceous Period (100 million years ago) and are right where the dinosaurs left them, though the environment has changed dramatically since that time. Also see a few dozen dinosaur bones dating to the Jurassic Period (150 million years ago) from Stegosaurus (Colorado's State Fossil), Apatosaurus (formerly known as Brontosaurus), and the meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus. Come explore our fossils with your friends and family! Paleontologists have ranked this the #1 dinosaur tracksite in America. PLEASE NOTE: Main Visitor Center and Discovery Center parking lots close and are locked at 5 p.m. Dinosaur Ridge Trail itself is open sunrise to sunset and has limited parking at each entry where you are welcome to park before and after our operating hours.
11/01/2026
! Can't help but celebrate skeletal remains on a night like this, including one of our favorites now on display in the Martin G. Lockley Discovery Center. Save the Date: NOVEMBER 7th is when this museum AND the Main Visitor Center at Dinosaur Ridge will open late from 5 to 9 p.m. with fun in the dark activities! Give your costumes an encore performance and visit in character! No reservations needed, and no charge for admission!
10/27/2026
Day 4, St. George Red Hills Desert Garden tracks
Great fun, great adventure, great learning, great dinosaur tracks and bones, great friends!
10/25/2026
Day 2 in St. George UT: Digging at the Substation Quarry, and a little hijinks
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16831 W Alameda Pkwy
Morrison, CO
80465
Opening Hours
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 9am - 5pm |
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