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Article: Making tracks: Trek back in time to the old stomping ground of giants.(Originated from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph)
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- June 24, 1996
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LA JUNTA, Colo. _ As Jurassic safaris go, this one was a modest success.
Plenty of dinosaur tracks. But no dinosaurs. Not an allosaurus or brontosaurus in sight.
Just birds and rabbits and chipmunks and lizards and pronghorns. Shucks. It turns out our timing was off _ by about 150 million years.
Still, even though we didn't see a living, breathing, barn-sized reptile, the tracks made the 10.6-mile round-trip hike in the Picket Wire Canyonlands worthwhile.
Picket Wire, south of La Junta in the Comanche National Grassland, is the largest documented dinosaur-track site in North America. But you don't have to be a paleontologist to identify or ...