"Colorado's Public Dinosaur Trackway: A Prehistoric Hiking Adventure"

The Grand Mesa, Uncompahge, and Gunnison National Forests have acquired 27 acres of land in Ouray County, Colorado, including a trackway featuring 134 fossilized dinosaur footprints left by a long-neck sauropod dinosaur over 150 million years ago. The acquisition aims to protect this valuable scientific resource and provide an opportunity for the public to connect with the distant past. The site, known as the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite, will be open to the public, accessible via the steep and rugged Silvershield trail, with plans to add signage and improve access. This adds to Colorado's collection of prehistoric sites, including the Picket Wire Canyonlands tracksite in southeast Colorado.