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Looking over the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. Photo by Larry Pierce/CTO

The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center

- 201 S. Fairview St. Woodland Park
- Phone: 719-686-1820
- Web: www.rmdrc.com
- Cost: Seniors (65+): $8.50; Adults: $9.50; Children 5–12: $6.50; Younger than 5: Free
- Hours: Open year round, seven days a week, Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is closed Christmas Day, Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day

The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Center was founded in 2004 by Mike and J.J. Triebold, of Triebold Paleontology Incorporated. The center encompasses 20,000 square feet, of which 12,000 square feet is dedicated to exhibits. The center holds more than 30 life sized specimens, primarily skeletons, and houses TPI operations that directly contribute to the center.

Mike Triebold has been collecting fossils for more than 20 years and has been featured on The Learning Channel’s “Paleoworld,”the Discovery Channel’s “Bone Head Detectives,” Fox television specials, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.

Triebold Paleontology Inc. maintains the traveling exhibit “Savage Ancient Seas”featuring marine reptiles from Kansas.

TPI operates dig sites in South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas and Montana.