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From November 1st, through April 30th, Dinosaur Ridge's Visitor Center will close at 4:00PM. The last shuttle tour leaves at 3:00PM, and the exhibit hall closes at 3:30PM.

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Visit our About Us section to learn about how our Exhibits and trails here at Dinosaur Ridge and at Triceratops Trail were created to help the public explore ancient Colorado and the creatures that once lived here.

Walk with 90-foot, long-necked giants across a floodplain lined with streams, ponds, and watering holes! Trace the ripple patterns left by Colorado’s ocean on Morrison’s sandy beaches! Muck through Golden’s swamp under the shade of palm trees with Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex at Triceratops Trail!

Come have an adventure at Dinosaur Ridge!

Upcoming events:

Fireside Chat: Loren Eiseley: a poet wearing the fox skins of a scientist

Join author/illustrator, Gary Raham, at a fireside chat at Dinosaur Ridge on Wednesday, January 27 at 7 p.m. as he looks at the life and works of Loren Eiseley, who helped bridge the gap for generations of admirers in the often-divided cultures of art and science.

Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) wrote for Harper's Magazine and Atlantic Monthly, penned best selling books, both non-fiction and poetry, but also served as Provost and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1960, his The Firmament of Time only lost out to the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for the National Book Award. As a graduate student he discovered a Folsom Point embedded in the vertebra of the extinct Bison antiquus at the Lindenmeier site north of Fort Collins. Yet he struggled his entire career to find the balance between the objective pursuit of science and exercising his ability to explain and dramatize science with the written word. He felt awe contemplating deep time and man's place in the natural world.

This event is not recommended for children.