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Dinosaur & Canyon Country
Vernal, Price and Green River tell stories of fossils, rock art and river journeys.
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Find your place
Dinosaur & Canyon Country, a little closer.
Vernal, Price and Green River tell stories of fossils, rock art and river journeys. Give the distant communities their own days and prepare before leaving the paved road.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
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Your next good stop.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Utah photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- David Thomas's sculpture of a Utah raptor predatory dinosaur outside the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in the small city of Vernal in eastern Utah's Uintah County — Carol M. Highsmith. Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Animantarx price 2.jpg — Jens Lallensack. Own work CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- A classic long freight train (many of which exceed 100 cars) cross a remote, mostly dry valley near the small city of Green River (population c. 950 as of 2022) in the western U.S. state of Utah — Carol M. Highsmith. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Utah FIPS49. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.