Blanding's Dinosaur Museum is fascinating and highly ambitious; it's aim is to cover the complete history of the world’s dinosaurs. Mummified remains and fossil replicas go a long way toward this goal, but most interesting is the collection of dinosaur-movie-related memorabilia.
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27.13 MILES
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25.5 MILES
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1. Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum
1.21 MILES
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20.36 MILES
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5. Sand Island Petroglyph Panel
25.5 MILES
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6. Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
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27.13 MILES
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8. Hovenweep National Monument
27.42 MILES
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