Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway National Scenic Byway - Utah
Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway National Scenic Byway - Utah is a National Scenic Byway in Utah. Within Utah it covers roughly 320 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway National Scenic Byway - Utah with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Dinosaur Diamond is a National Scenic Byway tracing a roughly 500-mile, diamond-shaped loop across eastern Utah and western Colorado through one of the richest concentrations of dinosaur fossils on earth. The Utah leg links Vernal — gateway to the bone-studded quarry wall at Dinosaur National Monument — with Price and the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, which has yielded more Jurassic dinosaur bones than any other single site. Between the museums and quarries the route crosses high desert, the Book Cliffs, and the canyon country around Green River and Moab.
- Dinosaur National Monument quarry
- Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
- Vernal & Price museums
- Book Cliffs
- ~500-mile loop
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What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.