Saturday & SUNday | April 11 & 12, 2026
Fossil Point Dinosaur Bones
Led by paleontologists Logan King & Georgia Knauss
Fossil Point, the gem of our festival, is a remarkable window into the Late Jurassic period, approximately 150 million years in the past, when this now-arid landscape was a lush ecosystem hugging a braided river. Today, Fossil Point sits within the infamous Morrison Formation, a vast layer of sedimentary rock that has yielded some of the world’s most spectacular dinosaur fossils. Here, paleontologists have discovered numerous bones from sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed herbivorous dinosaurs that rank among the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth. The bones were likely deposited when these enormous creatures perished along the ancient river banks and their remains were buried in sand and mud, which gradually turned to stone over millions of years, preserving the fossils for modern scientists to study.
This half-day field trip is an excellent option for able-bodied adults and families with school-aged children.
The site requires scrambling along a steep area to view dinosaur bones in boulders scattered among the slope.
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Participants must drive their own vehicles.
Vehicles with some clearance are required. The last mile of road contains a rocky stretch.
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Lunch, water, sturdy shoes, binoculars, camera, and snacks.
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Saturday: Logan King
Logan King is a paleontologist that currently works for Colorado Northwestern Community College in Craig, Colorado. A new transplant to the American West, Logan's recent positions included a PhD at the University of Bristol, England and a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. Logan's background is in dinosaurian cranial anatomy and neuroanatomy, though he often works with birds, crocodilians, and other closely related animals. While new to the area, Logan has spent more than a few years in geological formations across Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico while doing fieldwork and research.Sunday: Georgia Knauss, Regional Paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah
