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A trip to Dinosaur National Monument over Memorial Day Weekend

Some trips are done for a backcountry experience. Other trips are done to see a  unique area or contain much deep history.

Dinosaur NM? A little of everything. It is a trip that someone esp wanted to see.

So over Memorial Day Weekend, we packed up the car, drove out to this remote corner of Utah/Colorado and explored the area.

A trip Dinosaur National Monument can be divided into four distinct sections IMO:

• The Cultural (Fossils and Petroglyphs)
• The  Canyon views
• The River
• The Backcountry

On this trip, we explored the first three but not the last part. By all accounts, the backcountry of Dinosaur is supposed to be pretty special. Remote, largely un-populated and rivaling anything found in other parts of the Colorado Plateau. It is something I’d love to explore….but this was not the trip for it.

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