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template: byway.jade
id: "39522"
name: "Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway - Colorado"
distance: "152"
duration: 3 hours to drive or 3 days to enjoy the Byway
description: "Colorado's Dinosaur Diamond runs through the best land in the world to learn about dinosaurs. Museums along the route display many such fossils and also artifacts of the ancient Indians who once lived in the deep canyons, colorful deserts and cool mountain valleys of this part of the American West."
contact: "**[Dinosaur Journey Museum](http://www.dinosaurjourney.org/DinosaurJourney.htm)**  \r\n 970-858-7782  \r\n [Send E-mail](mailto:mmenard@westcomuseum.org )  \r\n\r\n"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=65550"
    name: Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/colm/"
    name: Colorado National Monument
  - url: "http://www.coloradodot.info/travel/scenic-byways/northwest/dinosaur-diamond"
    name: "Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway-Colorado"
designations: 
  - National Scenic Byway
states: 
  - CO
part of: 
  - "2474"
ll: 
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  - 39.19670099985126
bounds: 
  - - -109.05129214281811
    - 39.109530999955666
  - - -108.64424899959164
    - 40.27328648718162

---

Colorado's Dinosaur Diamond runs through the best land in the world to learn about dinosaurs. Museums along the route display many such fossils and also artifacts of the ancient Indians who once lived in the deep canyons, colorful deserts and cool mountain valleys of this part of the American West.