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To get up early in the morning already feel unbearably hot,, 8:55 departure, continue along 191 south highway going south. After one hour driving, we reached Dinosaur National Monument. This placed was discovered in year 1909, which is the largest dinosaur site in North America. Dinosaurs once roamed here. Their fantastic remains are still visible embedded in the rocks. Today, the mountains, desert and untamed rivers flowing in deep canyons, support an array of life. Petroglyphs hint at earlier cultures. Later, homesteaders and outlaws found refuge here
we left the Dinosaur National Monument at noon, going south along Highway No. 64, approaches the town of Dinosaur. 14:30 Go to 70 Highway, in the small town of less than seven miles from the Colorado National Monument, we had lunch at McDonald's, after few days driving, lunch, the phone is only able to receive the signal here. The afternoon sun burning to let people feel dizzy, people have slowed down.
Under the scorching sun after a short break, we came to the Colorado National Monument (Colorado National protected areas), here is one of the most famous American landscape, known as the pocket of the Grand Canyon, and covers an area of 32 square miles, six or seven protected areas colored sandstone canyon where they stand, these canyons are the forces of nature by wind, water, and glacial formed slowly over millions of years.
Colorado National Monument has two entrances, we enter Fruita entrance, See a stretch of mountain canyons are gorgeous and the rock of the mountain is not smooth, but very layered layers. Rugged mountain road in the park, S-shaped curve road.
There is a famous place call Independence Monument, Geographic magazine will take the landscape here as the representative works of the Colorado Canyon. Old days, before the Independence Monument and the next rock could have been with a rock wall, due to the long-term erosion, loss of both sides of the rock, the rest of this independent rock.
After two hour hard working and study, Rachel joined Junior Park Ranger program and she has the badge.
Driving along the main road, and saw the rain clouds approaching from afar, bursts of lightning in the sky. We live in Grand Junction for a night, a nice town with many hotels and shopping places.
