Day 3 - May 26, 2019 Last updated: 6/8/19 9:00pm PT
Dinosaur National Monument has two parts, one in Utah and one in Colorado. We only went to the Utah part, as that is where they have a wall of bones. The bones were so numerous that they left them in the hillside, chiseled out enough to be viewable, and built a building over the hill to protect the area.
We drove a little into the park to see the scenery. The pictures never capture the color properly.
We ended the day in Denver. The drive on I-70 into the Rockies was crazy steep. Our poor little 4 cylinder car complained a lot about climbing the mountain but made it. I’m not sure how tall the Rockies are at I-70, but the tunnel they blasted through the mountain for the road is at 11,000 feet in elevation and there was a lot of snow covered mountain above the tunnel. (we still got 46 mpg on that leg).