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Places: Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge

February 28, 2021 by Mike Rosso

By Mike Rosso If I were to use one word to describe Browns Park in northwestern Colorado, it would be “remote.” The nearest towns of any significance are Craig, Colorado, Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Vernal, Utah, all of which are at least 90 minutes away by automobile. Save for a few cattle ranches, there are …

Cañon City’s Famous Dinosaur

March 5, 2018March 1, 2018 by Mike Rosso

By Virginia McConnell Simmons Meet Stegosaurus stenops, Colorado’s state fossil. The local popularity of dinosaurs is evident at Cañon City, where prison inmates created a large model of a Stegosaurus several years ago. It became a familiar mascot, once seen on the east side of town and later moved to the Fremont Campus of Pueblo …