Dinosaur National Monument ought to be designated a National Park by an act of Congress.

National parks are characterized by large size and multiple features. The existing national monument fits these criteria. In terms of tourism and recreation, it is located within a day's drive of ten other national parks. Visitors engage in a wide variety of recreational activities from car sightseeing and viewing Native American rock art to multi-day river trips on the Green and Yampa Rivers. The most famous attraction, currently closed pending reconstruction, is the main dinosaur fossil quarry discovered by Earl Douglass in 1909.

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Dinosaur National Monument was originally established as an 80-acre area by proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on October 4, 1915, under authority of the Antiquities Act, for the purpose of preserving a rich deposit of fossilized dinosaur bones found here in an excellent state of preservation. By proclamation of July 14, 1938, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the area was extended to include other resources of great scientific interest, such as the canyon of the Yampa River and the Canyon of Lodore, Whirlpool Canyon, and Split Mountain Canyon on the Green River. The total area, including State and private lands within the exterior boundaries, as of October 1945, is approximately 209,744 acres.

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Dinosaur National Monument - National Park Service

The Dinosaur National Monument, by Earl Douglass
The History of Dinosaur National Monument's Douglas Quarry: The Park Service Years