Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite

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Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite

Roughly 160 million years ago, a tract of land near Greybull, Wyoming, was a real-life Jurassic Park.  Located in the Bighorn Basin of north-central Wyoming and managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior, the 40-acre Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is home to hundreds of dinosaur tracks preserved in limestone. Discovered in 1997 by Greybull native Erik Kvale, the tracks signaled a shocking shift in previously held beliefs that the area had once…