Travel & Vacation: Dinosaur Ridge

Karlie and Brina ready to go explore at Dinosaur Ridge!

My cousin Renelle and her husband Eric took the girls on an adventure to Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado.  The girls were really excited to check out all the neat dinosaur prints, bones, and learn more about the dinosaurs in this area.  We took a tour bus up Dinosaur Ridge and the guide stopped a few different places to let us get out and explore more.  It was really neat!  The girls had a grand time!  Thanks Eric and Renelle for taking us up to Dinosaur Ridge!

Uncle Eric and the girls looking at the dinosaurs outside the visitor center!

The gray prints are dinosaur tracks!

If you look closely there is  big track right next to a smaller set (a Mom dinosaur with a baby) and right behind the two tracks is another one that is chasing them.  Pretty neat seeing the different tracks and how they can determine what they were and a lot of other cool details!

Up close picture of one of the big tracks.

They let you climb up part of the rock area to check out the tracks.  The kids loved climbing up and putting their hands in the tracks!

A lot of different dinosaur tracks on this section.

Karlie all smiles as she comes up to the observation tower.

Karlie and Brina at Dinosaur Ridge.

All smiles!  You can see the dinosaurs tracks in the picture behind them.

Looking at the tracks and listening to the guide talk about all the different ones.

Touching dinosaur bones in the rock.

Large dinosaur bone!

The guide told us how to locate them since not all were marked with signs.  Karlie found one!

Brina found one too!

Another one has been found!

Karlie having a grand time at Dinosaur Ridge!

Listening to the guide describe and show all the interesting pieces in this area.

Karlie touching the dinosaur footprint.  If you look closer the rocky area dips down where the dinosaur footprint is outlined.

Hanging out at Dinosaur Ridge.  Fun times in Colorado!