We visited Delta, in western Utah, so we could dig for fossils in a privately owned quarry.  The fossils were NOT dinosaurs, though, they were trilobites, or small creatures who lived approx. 550 million years ago in the sea that was in what is now western Utah.

Here’s the website for the quarry: http://www.u-digfossils.com/

At this quarry they give you a bucket and a couple of small pickaxes and you can dig through the shale rock to find trilobites.  There are LOTS of these small fossils to be found!  We filled our bucket and we got to keep all that we found!

Here are pictures of some that we found: