8/24/08 - Colorado National Monument, Colorado

We hooked up and drove down scenic highway 191 to Vernal, Utah where we went to the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum. This is another great museum and it is the repository of fossils extracted from the rich fossil beds in the surrounding area. There were exhibits of dinosaur skeletons and other fossils, as well as exhibits explaining the geology of the region. Then we drove to Colorado National Monument near Fruita, Colorado and set up the trailer in the park campground. This park has canyons, monoliths, sheer cliffs, and rock formations carved out by uneven erosion of the soft sandstone. We got there late but took a few pictures before going into nearby Grand Junction where we visited two brewpubs and had dinner at one of them.