From Moab, Utah comes news that Utahraptor State Park is now open to visitors.
MOAB, Utah — The first visitors have arrived at Utah's newest state park that took years to create.
"This is the first project in state history to take over 100 million years to complete!" Governor Spencer Cox joked at the opening of the new Utahraptor State Park.
The new state park is named for the Utahraptor, a dinosaur species made famous because it's what paleontologists say the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies based their velociraptors on. The park is rich with dinosaur fossils coming mostly from the Dalton Wells Quarry, which is now within its boundaries.
"I think it’s spectacular, really," said Dave Coulter, who is one of the first to visit the new park. "It’s got some recent history and the paleologic history is amazing."
