Dinosaur Displays: Is there a Better Place to See them than Utah?

   I wonder if Utah markets its dinosaur sites as a package. I'm thinking, make them better, make improvements, make them even more tourist-worthy, and advertise them together to the dinosaur enthusiasts. Offer bus tours that visit a number of the sites.

   For Utah might offer as much as anyplace in the world, when it comes to dinosaur sites.

   Look at what there is in this state:

   Carnegie Quarry in Dinosaur National Monument has been called, "one of the best displays of natural history on the planet" (Gadling.com). There, in the world-famous fossil wall, visitors can view the bones of almost 1,500 dinosaurs. Scattered throughout the 200,000-acre monument are at least a thousand other dinosaur remains. Tourists find themselves at a place where excavation and research are ongoing. Part of the monument is in Utah and part in Colorado, and I do not know which site of the state line has Carnegie Quarry.

   The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point offers what is among the largest displays in the world of mounted dinosaurs, 

   Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry maybe 32 miles south of Price is home to the world's densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones.

   There are more than 30 dinosaur skeletons and 14 horned dinosaur skulls at the Natural History Museum of Utah. The museum also boasts the world's only display of 14 horned dinosaur skulls.

   There are bones from more than 10 creatures from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods at the George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden.

   There are displays such as a dinosaur egg with an x-ray of an embryo inside it at the BYU Earth Science Museum. The museum offers one of the largest, as well as most-valuable, Jurassic displays in the world. About 25,000 visitors pour into the museum each year.

   There are more than 3,500 dinosaur tracks at St. George Dinosaur Discovery at Johnson Farm. There's also a dinosaur "butt impression," which is so uncommon that there are only 5 in the world. The St. George site has been called, "the most important in the world for researchers working on early Jurassic footprints.

    There have been enough bones found at the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument that some are suggesting if is, "the next frontier for dinosaur hunters." It has also been called the "last great, largely unexplored dinosaur boneyard in the 48 states. No tourist exhibit exists yet, but it would seem one should be build, as the area warrants that.

   And, there are other spots. The Dinosaur Museum in Blanding certainly should not be left out. Perhaps it could be upgraded so it boasts of having the world's best presentation on feathered dinosaurs. For all I know, though, it could already make that claim.
   And, there is the Museum of Moab and Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail near Moab, the Prehistory Museum in Price, and the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal. And, there might be other sites I am unaware of. 

  If you want to see dinosaur remains, Utah is your place. Could the state bill itself as the best place in in the world to see dinosaur displays and learn about dinosaurs? I don't know, but I'd guess that with a few upgrades, we could.
   And, we should. We should upgrade and polish every site to be tourist-worthy, and maybe create a few more sites. Maybe turn one or two of them into state parks, to bring in the funding necessary for the upgrades. Package some or all of them together in a tour, and bill it as the world's preeminent dinosaur tour, carrying the tourist from site to site throughout the state.