There are dinosaurs by the side of the road from coast to coast in America- some of them are so bug that you can climb a staircase and visit religious shrines inside their bodies- and there are dinosaur parks with dozens of fanciful specimens, some we have seen with Day-Glo tennis balls for eyes.<\/p>\n
But the sad fact is that most of this country\u2019s population of roadside dinosaurs are falling- apart wrecks. That\u2019s why it is such a pleasure to see the dinos of Vernal, Utah. Sculptor Elbert Porter spent fourteen years creating these fourteen fiberglass and polyester resin beauties, which are arrayed in a park adjacent to the Utah Field House Natural History Museum: the handsomest and best-maintained dinosaur garden in the land. They are anatomically correct and lifesize (some as long as eighty feet), and they have faces blaze with emotion; the landscape they inhabit simulates Jurassic foliage; and they are illuminated at night in the summer when you can take an evening stroll past their waterfall and through their swamp.<\/p>\n
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