Dinosaur National Monument

After spending the night in Fort Collins, I headed west again towards Dinosaur National Monument, a remote stretch of deep canyons and dusty dinosaur bones, straddling the border between Colorado and Utah.

My first stop on Thursday afternoon was the the monument's Canyon Area on the Colorado side. I first took the Harpers Corner Drive, stopping at a number of spots to look out over the landscape gashed and contorted by the Green and Yampa Rivers, then drove down into the canyons to Steamboat Rock near the confluence of the two rivers.

I camped that night across the Utah state line at the Green River campground then hiked the Hog Canyon and Desert Voices trails the next morning through the colorful desert terrain and visited the Dinosaur Quarry, an ancient bend in the river where dinosaur bones accumulated over millennia.