Triceratops Trail at Dinosaur Ridge
Triceratops Trail is a 1.5-mile, gravel hiking trail located one block east of 6th Avenue and 19th Street in Golden, Colorado. The trail winds between large, vertical walls of sandstone in old clay mining pits and takes about an hour round-trip. Along the trail are several interpretive stops highlighting the geology and clay mining as well as dinosaur, bird, mammal, insect, and invertebrate tracks and traces.

The site is famous for palm frond and other leaf and plant impressions left behind when this was a delta-like, wet environment. The trail features many dinosaur tracks, including an impressive large three-toed Tyrannosaur track and several four-toed Triceratops tracks, dated to the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, 68 million years ago.

Near the end of the trail at the edge of Fossil Trace Golf Course hole #13, the vertical sandstone wall is covered with large palm frond impressions, evidence of the Late Cretaceous climate in Colorado when this then-wet area was filled with palms, magnolia, sycamore trees, low-lying ferns and herbs. The trail has no amenities.
