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Dinosaur Depot Museum
330 Royal Gorge Blvd.
Caņon City
(800) 987-6379
(719) 269-7150
The Garden Park Paleontology Society's Dinosaur Depot Museum is a must-see! Among the dinosaurs on display is the world's most complete Stegosaurus. Discovery Room, Preparation Laboratory and Museum Store.
Fremont Center for the Arts
505 Macon Ave.
Caņon City
(719) 275-2790
Located in the historic Post Office. Rotating gallery exhibits. Classes for all ages. Gift shop featuring local artisans, Art library, and permanent collection. Open Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Where Art is the Heart of the community!
Museum of Colorado Prisons
201 North 1st St.
Caņon City
(719) 269-3015
Audio tour, gift shop with prison crafts, historic walking and ghost tours, historic re-enactments, senior and group discount. Hours vary.
Florence Chamber
"A Great Little Town"
Antiques, Art, Fine Food and Specialty Shoppes.
Caņon City's Community Heritage Pass
Two Caņon City Attractions, One Price. Celebrating the artistic, educational and historic elements of our community.
Royal Gorge Bridge and Park
(800) 333-5597
Colorado's Natural Wonder with exciting rides and great views.
View brochure!
Royal Gorge Route Railroad
(888) 724-5748
The best way to see the Royal Gorge is from the train!
Colorado Vertical Helitours
(719) 276-9038
See spectacular views from a jet powered helicopter.
Play Dirty ATV Tours
27077 Hwy. 50
Texas Creek
(877) ATV-COLOrado
(877) 288-2656
Play Dirty ATV Tours, whether it be a private tour or rental, come get dirty with us. It's fun!
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Garden Park Fossil Area, located just north of Caņon City on Shelf Road, is a3,600-acre area that has been producing significant dinosaur fossils for nearly 125 years. Most of the Jurassic dinosaurs on display at Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History are from this area. Three Stegosaurus skeletons, including Colorado's state fossil, are from this area.
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The Dinosaur Depot Museum in Caņon City displays the most recently recovered and most complete Stegosaurus found in 1992. You can see the laboratory where that Stegosaurus was prepared for display and talk with paleontologists, volunteer and professional, that work with dinosaurs. Kids can explore fossils in the Discovery Room. museum guides are also available to accompany you to the Garden Park Fossil Area or to help you find the Skyline Drive Trackway Site where dinosaurs walked along the beach of an inland sea.
Dinosaur Depot Museum
330 Royal Gorge Blvd. #A
Caņon City, CO 81212
Skyline Drive Trackway Site
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In December of 1999 William Kurtz, a paleontology student at The University of Colorado, made a remarkable discovery. While walking along Skyline Drive west of Caņon City, he was amazed to see what he thought were dinosaur tracks.
In February 2000, with help from the city of Caņon City in closing Skyline Drive to work in secrecy, volunteers from the Garden Park Paleontology Society began to excavate the trackway site. Volunteers worked with hammers, chisels, crowbars, picks, shovels and wheelbarrows to clear the tons of rock covering the tracks and other fossils.
Today visitors can view tracks that were made during the early Cretaceous Period, approximately 107 million years ago. Researchers have determined a group of dinosaurs were walking side by side through the mud along the edge of an estuary, probably eating the plants. The tracks were then filled in by sand and plant debris, which hardened to preserve them as casts of the actual tracks.
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