The Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail is a small outdoor paleontological museum where visitors can take a self-guided tour through the 150-million-year-old skeletal remains of various types of dinosaurs. The highlight of the trail is the natural display of numerous fossilized bones from Jurassic dinosaurs like the allosaurus, camptosaurus, stegosaurus, and camarasaurus. Visitors will also find fragments of fossil wood and Jurassic plants and, most notably, actual dinosaur tracks preserved in the stone.
There are no guards or fences at the site, so visitors are asked to be responsible and help preserve the area. Tour pamphlets are available at the entrance. While in Mill Canyon, visitors should also explore the remains of the Old Copper Mill and those of the Halfway Stage Station, which served as a resting point for travelers on their way from Moab to the train station in Thompson in the 1800s.
