Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Drive
A large part of the drive looks like this
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 Vernal is the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, one of the planet's premier dinosaur bones, fossils, eggs and artifacts showcases. East of Vernal is Dinosaur National Monument, an area where so many dinosaur fossils have been found. South of Wellington is where you'll find the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, another extensive cache of dinosaur remnants.
Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument
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...
My exposition on the Colorado section of the Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway is here.
The Green River/John Wesley Powell Museum
Along the Route:
- Arches National Park
- 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
- Manti-La Sal National Forest
- 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 embedded in the wall at the Dinosaur Quarry, Dinosaur National Monument
Slideshow photos courtesy of TheArmchairExplorer, CCA-by-SA 3.0 License
Other photos courtesy of the National Park Service
Other photos courtesy of the National Park Service
Related Pages
Arches National Park
Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
Canyonlands National Park
Colorado National Monument
Dead Horse Point Scenic Drive
Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway
Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
Canyonlands National Park
Colorado National Monument
Dead Horse Point Scenic Drive
Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway
Map courtesy of National Geographic Topo!