Udink
03-24-2011, 10:55 AM
A couple of weekends ago I took my kids out to find some dinosaur tracks I'd heard about along the Moore Cutoff Road in the San Rafael Swell. We found them pretty easily, right along the side of the road. There are a lot of tracks there, and a few are very clear. My youngest also found a nice dinosaur bone near the track site. After visiting the dino tracks, we stopped at a couple of the overlooks along I-70 just to give the kids something else to do for a while.
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The first small boulder with dinosaur tracks that we ran across
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Closer view of one of the tracks
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kJH-rpqI/AAAAAAAASNA/crxFfMqkGNk/s640/IMG_2138.JPG
At another rock with dino tracks
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kKg2CwhI/AAAAAAAASNE/8vD_nVFsx7o/s640/IMG_2143.JPG
Dinosaur track
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kMnsxm2I/AAAAAAAASNI/YlYSUL7FXLM/s640/IMG_2144.JPG
Dinosaur track
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kQg7w3qI/AAAAAAAASNQ/0cCL1Qkpd_Y/s640/IMG_2152.JPG
Moore Cutoff Road viewed from the dinosaur tracks
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kRs2ApaI/AAAAAAAASNU/Ff2FyruQNsY/s640/IMG_2154.JPG
Fossilized dinosaur bone
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kS4r_C8I/AAAAAAAASNY/ONj1dXGp-5E/s640/IMG_2155.JPG
Curtis Formation rock on Sand Bench near I-70
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kc_O3X8I/AAAAAAAASOA/q64UV07jZR8/s640/IMG_2192.JPG
Sand Bench south of I-70
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2keE7C-KI/AAAAAAAASOE/Yn5IifD_f-A/s640/IMG_2196.JPG
There are a few more photos here:
MooreCutoffDinoTracks
https://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis.Udink/MooreCutoffDinoTracks#
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The first small boulder with dinosaur tracks that we ran across
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kHHKZ11I/AAAAAAAASM8/n1H5JWOGOs8/s640/IMG_2137.JPG
Closer view of one of the tracks
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kJH-rpqI/AAAAAAAASNA/crxFfMqkGNk/s640/IMG_2138.JPG
At another rock with dino tracks
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kKg2CwhI/AAAAAAAASNE/8vD_nVFsx7o/s640/IMG_2143.JPG
Dinosaur track
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kMnsxm2I/AAAAAAAASNI/YlYSUL7FXLM/s640/IMG_2144.JPG
Dinosaur track
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kQg7w3qI/AAAAAAAASNQ/0cCL1Qkpd_Y/s640/IMG_2152.JPG
Moore Cutoff Road viewed from the dinosaur tracks
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kRs2ApaI/AAAAAAAASNU/Ff2FyruQNsY/s640/IMG_2154.JPG
Fossilized dinosaur bone
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kS4r_C8I/AAAAAAAASNY/ONj1dXGp-5E/s640/IMG_2155.JPG
Curtis Formation rock on Sand Bench near I-70
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2kc_O3X8I/AAAAAAAASOA/q64UV07jZR8/s640/IMG_2192.JPG
Sand Bench south of I-70
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_JpEWXOITrzw/TX2keE7C-KI/AAAAAAAASOE/Yn5IifD_f-A/s640/IMG_2196.JPG
There are a few more photos here:
MooreCutoffDinoTracks
https://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis.Udink/MooreCutoffDinoTracks#