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Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, CO
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Dinosaur Resource Center

Dinosaur Resource Center is a museum in Woodland Park, CO, part of the Denver & the Front Range guide. Cost: under $25.

201 S Fairview St · Woodland Park, CO

Why you should go…

The Dinosaur Resource Center, also known as the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, is a 20,000 square foot fossil museum in Woodland Park, Colorado, near Colorado Springs. It displays more than 40 complete dinosaur, pterosaur and marine reptile skeletons, primarily from the Late Cretaceous, and houses the largest commercial paleontology preparation lab in the country. The museum opened to the public in 2004 and includes guided tours and a gift shop.

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