Quarry Visitor Center, Paleontology museum in Uintah County, United States.
The Quarry Visitor Center is a National Historic Landmark building in Uintah County, Utah, designed by the firm Anshen & Allen and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It shelters a wall of Morrison Formation sandstone from the Jurassic, roughly 150 million years old, holding dinosaur bones left in the rock where Earl Douglass found them in 1909.
Earl Douglass discovered this fossil site in 1909 and conducted excavations that recovered roughly 700,000 pounds of bones from the area. The significance of these findings led to the establishment of Dinosaur National Monument in 1915.
The center embodies 1950s architectural approaches that paired visitor facilities with landscape respect, representing how the park service began welcoming guests more systematically. This building style shaped how people experience and engage with fossil sites today.
The center is open daily and features exhibition spaces along with information desks to help orient visitors. Keep in mind that access to excavation areas may be restricted and walkways vary in difficulty level.
The visitor center was designed by the San Francisco firm Anshen & Allen and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1986, becoming a National Historic Landmark on January 3, 2001. Its glass-walled exhibit hall was built directly against the quarry face so the fossil bed forms one wall.
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