Dinosaur Hike

I told Ben that I wanted to do some 'touristy' Colorado things this year.  Because we both grew up here there are a lot of things that we have never done (why be a tourist when you live here?) but we have decided to do some of those things this summer.  One of these is a cool hike called the Dinosaur Ridge Trail.  Only about an hour from our house is an entire ridge that has hundreds of dinosaur tracks, a quarry of dinosaur bones, and interesting geologic features. The National Park Service has designated the area a National Natural Landmark, the state of Colorado has made it a Colorado Natural Area, and the Colorado Geological Survey recommends it as an official Point of Geologic Interest.  So...we decided to go. 

We went with some friends, the Forsyth's, because Jaime loves dinosaurs.  We were a little disappointed and confused when we got there.  The 'trail' by the fossils is a paved road and there were families (in flip flops) looking around, we definitely looked out of place in our hiking cloths. But the further we went up we found some other paths that took us out of the 'touristy' part of the area and took us on a pretty hike.  The landscape was really dry and rocky, so it was a different hike than I usually go on but it was still beautiful.  It was fun to go and see something new that we have never seen in Colorado.