Beginning Monday, Sept 17, the Quarry Visitor Center and Quarry Exhibit Hall go to Fall/Winter hours. They will both be open daily, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Starting Monday, the shuttle between the visitor center and exhibit hall will operate only on Saturdays and Sunday through mid-October. On weekdays, visitors drive their personal vehicle to…
We’ve been waiting all summer for the road construction on SR 149 to get to our end of the road… it is finally here! They will have to make a couple of passes and do the west end of our parking lot but we’re almost there. They are supposed to lay down another strip of…
https://news.byu.edu/news/rare-triassic-pterosaur-discovered-byu-paleontologists When Brooks Britt, a geological sciences professor at BYU, searched through the latest Triassic sandstone samples in his lab, he expected to find bones of early crocodiles and dinosaurs. Instead, he discovered the bones of a new pterosaur specimen, now named Caelestiventus (heavenly wind) hanseni. Dating back more than 200 million years, it’s one of the earliest…
Changes You have already noticed that the POS computers have been switched around. The #1 computer is now the one at the front (Ranger) counter and the computer at our normal sales station is now the #2 computer. We lost the hard drive and had to replace it in the (currently) #2 computer so we…
Dinosaur National Monument: On the Colorado side, the Canyon Visitor Center will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. until Saturday, May 19th when they will be open daily. On the Utah side, shuttle bus operations between the Quarry Visitor Center and the Exhibit Hall will start. The shuttle will leave…
Harpers Corner Rd is now open all the way. There are a few spots that the snow is close to the fog line but that will melt off quickly. Canyon Overlook is one lane down to the lower parking lot but we will have that plowed by the end of the week.
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Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. What Do People Do? Many churches hold special services on Easter Sunday, which celebrate the Jesus Christ’s resurrection after his crucifixion. Many people also decorate eggs. These can be hard boiled eggs that can be…
From Timeanddate.com March Equinox – Equal Day and Night, Nearly There are two equinoxes every year – in March and September – when the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of night and day are nearly equal. The Earth during the equinox. (Not to scale) March Equinox in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA is on Tuesday,…
