This cache is located on the grounds of the Morrison Natural History Museum. The Morrison Natural History Museum was founded to interpret and preserve the dramatic Earth history of Morrison, Colorado and the greater Front Range.
Discover local dinosaurs at a small museum perfect for families. A small teaching museum and field research station, the Morrison Natural History Museum focuses on Front Range Colorado paleontology. Highlights include the first Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus bones ever discovered, as well as recently unearthed baby dinosaur footprints featured in Smithsonian magazine. Recently, the Museum has received international acclaim for its fossil discoveries at the historic dinosaur dig sites along Dinosaur Ridge. These excavations, supported by the Jefferson County Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and Aggregate Industries, have yielded a treasure trove of infant dinosaur tracks. Included in the discoveries are the first infant stegosaur and apatosaur tracks.
Thanks in part to a SCFD grant, the museum has installed an outdoor rock garden highlighting some of the geological formations that can be found in Colorado.
The Museum’s Geological Garden offers informational signs for the self-directed geocacher and is open daily, weather permitting.
The garden offers clues to help us understand dinosaur habitats and the geological setting of the Denver area.
To log this earth cache, please email your answers to the following questions to Lady Coot:
1. What is the name of the rock that is melted and recrystallized seafloor?
2. What is the common name of ‘araucaria arucacana’ ?
3. What is the scientific name of the Maiden Hair Tree?
4. Where is the Triassic Rock?
**If you care to, please post a picture of yourself at the site (without including any spoiler information)!**