This video is from inside the 2 level story at the Quarry Exhibit Hall.

This Quarry Exhibit Hall is the main attraction here at the Fossil Bone Quarry Section of Dinosaur National Monument.
It took me about 30 minutes to casually walk through the museum.

The top floor level doesn’t really offer much in terms of interesting artifacts to witness.
There’s much more to see when you take the stairs down to the lower floor where you’ll get up close to the old bones and reattachments/models of the prehistoric animals that once roamed this area of northeastern Utah.

Speaking of the area…this Quarry Exhibit Hall within the Fossil Bone Quarry area is situated right near the border of Colorado and Utah.
To be more precise it’s located 7 miles north of the town of Jensen, UT.

Btw, there are 2 sections to Dinosaur NM.
There’s this fossil and petroglyphs portion in Utah and there’s the scenic Canyon Area with landscape surroundings in Dinosaur, Colorado.
Each part of Dinosaur National Monument took me about a half day to explore…enough time to drive through both park roads and walk through this Quarry Exhibit Hall.

After strolling through the museum here I did drive the 10 mile Cub Creek Road through this Fossil Bone Quarry division, stopping for a few overlook views and hiking some short trails.

Lastly, the primary attraction at this Quarry Exhibit is this guy….the Allosaurus Jimmadseni - a common predator of the Morrison (whatever that means).
But…interesting how archaeologists were able to recreate and put back together his entire body. Quite impressive.
And when you look behind this allosaurus you have one giant wall of fossils sort of embedded into the rocks where I guess scientists were able to chip away and discover all these primitive animals that once roamed the earth from back in the day.

So for all you tourists who appreciate science and throwbacks in time….this Quarry museum building is for you.

Alright…signing off from the Quarry Exhibit Hall in the Petroglyphs portion of Dinosaur National Monument!

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