Lions, and tigers, and DINOSAURS?...Oh MY!

This area is rich in dinosaur history and fossils. The kids have had a great time discovering all our local treasures and Trenity and I have had fun finding so many wonderful free things to do with the family!

This is at the museum in Big Water just 10 minutes north of Page. It's a small museum/ranger station for the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

These dinosaur tracks are not from any museum. We found these still out in nature! We'll the tour guide showed us anyways. We thought they were just as cool as if we'd discovered them ourselves. There were huge chunks of the rock cut out in sections where scientists have removed the best tracks to display in museums around the world, but these ones were left behind.

Dilophasaurus tracks. This is a smaller dinosaur only 15 feet tall, 30 feet long, and 1500 pounds (I still wouldn't have wanted to run into one). There were hundreds of these tracks. We could see adults and tons of babies running around. Sometimes the claw marks were very defined it was pretty cool.


The T-Rex! I wish I had a picture of this one with a kid in it so you could see just how big it was.


Fossil bones by the track area.