Asher and Journey love dinosaurs, so when I found Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado had actual dinosaur prints and bones, we just had to go. I called one of my FB twin moms who lived nearby and we met her and her three children there.
We took a shuttle tour up to the four different sites. We were told this land used to be a flat beach and the permanent rock "waves" are evidence of the ocean that was once here.
Over 300 tracks, some from a mother and baby Iguanodon, have been identified in this area. It is just an amazing site! Ridge volunteers periodically use charcoal to darken the prints to make it easier for visitors to see.
Another stop gets you up close to the "dinosaur bulges". The mountain is made of layer upon layer of uniform rock, but then you have these large bulges where the very large, very heavy dinosaur's foot pressed thru the layers before it hardened into the rock. Some are so detailed you can even see the direction the dinosaur was walking!
The bone quarry is where the first stegosaurus was discovered and is now one of the few places that you can actually touch fossilized dinosaur bones still in the rocks, as Asher is doing here!
Directly across the street is this gorgeous view and road to Red Rocks Amphitheater, which was closed
for a concert when we drove thru, but was still a spectacular sight to see from the outside.
Here we are with my twin mama friend, Mary, and her kiddos with a very curious Iguanodon.
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