Attractions

Map New exhibits and displays cover the 22,000 square foot dinosaur museum, inside and out. Vivid murals and tile floors help visitors connect geological time to real-time places in Vernal.

Map Located across the street from the Vernal LDS Temple, this museum showcases artifacts, pictures, and history of the area from the mid-1800s.

Map Fantasy Canyon is the official designation of an area located about 40 miles south of Vernal which contains some of the most fascinating geologic features in the world.

Map Located on Jones Hole Creek, the hatchery is fed by a perennially flowing spring. The Hatchery is open to the public and supplies trout for streams, lakes and reservoirs in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Map Red Fleet State Park is located in the heart of Northeastern Utah. The park name was inspired by three large Navajo sandstone outcrops jutting up from the landscape as if a fleet of ships. Hundreds of dinosaur tracks are within the park.

About 1,000 years ago, the Fremont People lived in this area and left evidence of their presence in the form of petroglyphs and pictographs. Several areas in the monument allow visitors to easily access these designs and ponder the mystery of why they wer

Map Located 10 miles north of Vernal, at McConkie Ranch, the Dry Fork Canyon petroglyphs are famous for their quality and accessibility. These panels cover 200 feet of cliff face in the Navajo formation.

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Map A must see for those interested in high desert prehistory and the Fremont Indian culture. For nearly 1,200 years, ancient cultures have left their paintings and etchings carved upon the stone walls of Nine Mile.

Map Wild and dangerous, romantic and adventurous, the American West is for most people today an almost mythological world, one separated from ours by time, technology, and civilization. Yet, for Josie Bassett Morris, the Wild West was a stark reality. Josie lived most of her 90 years of life in this austere, yet beautiful, landscape in a time simpler than today, when people depended directly on the bounty of the land for survival and "neighbors" for companionship.