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Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience
Cañon City, Colorado, United States of America
The Royal
Gorge Dinosaur Experience provides an affordable, dynamic and high-value
educational opportunity for kids of all ages and enables families to learn and
recreate together on stunning property with views of the famed Royal Gorge
Bridge and Colorado’s stunning Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Our
state-of-the-art, 16,200 square-foot building houses a world-class collection
of interactive displays, full-scale dinosaur fossil casts, real dinosaur
fossils, entertaining guided tours of our exhibit halls, and our outdoor
skinned animatronic dinosaur exhibits and our multi-story ropes course ensure a
fine balance between science, learning and good old-fashioned family fun. Our
goal is to ensure that our visitors leave knowing a lot more about Colorado’s paleontological
history, while also carrying indelible memories of a great time spent learning,
discovering and having fun with their friends and families.
The most interesting dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience
Three
Stegosaurus have been found in the local Garden Park Fossil Area. One is on
display in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. and another that was found
and removed by a local teacher and his class is displayed at the Denver Museum
of Nature and Science. In 1983, that dinosaur became our state fossil. We made
an arrangement with the Denver Museum to have it 3D scanned, and a full scale
exact replica model was 3D printed, by which a mold was made to cast it, and
the articulated cast is displayed in our museum. As far as we can find, it is
the first and only such large scale dinosaur to be created this way.
Why you should visit the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience
Come
discover why our area is famous for dinosaurs! Take a museum tour and learn
about the role that our locals played in the famous “Bone Wars”, including the
invention of the plaster casting field method that is still in use today, and
see what awesome dinosaurs were discovered here. Then step outdoors and walk
among the life-size skinned animatronic dinosaurs in a natural setting, Get
high up on our ropes courses for a major thrill, and come eye to eye with our
mighty T. rex! It’s fun for the whole family!
Dinosaur species that are exhibited
Brontosaurus,
Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Edmontosaur, Daspletosaurus, Didelphodon,
New Hell creek pterosaur, Dimorphodon, Pterodaustro, Quetzalcoatlus,
Pteranodon, Champsosaurus, Struthiomimus, Thescelosaurus, Stangerochampsa,
Dorygnathus, Rhamphorhynchus, Protostega Gigas, Xiphactinus, Plesiosaurus,
Tylosaurus
www.DinoXP.com
44895 W US Hwy 50
Cañon City, Colorado 81212
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