Dinosaur Week 2025 Has Arrived!

In Colorado, we like to think we have everything you could ask for—the grandeur of mountain scrapes, tree-lined parks filled with every kind of dog and every kind of frisbee sport, craft beer seemingly on every corner. But what if there was even more that makes our hometowns one-of-a-kind, something that lives (and died…) below the surface? Rocky Mountain PBS has been working with various Colorado-based experts who assert just that–due to millions of years of geographic luck, every time we grab our cart at King Soopers or snag our favorite green chile, we walk atop grounds with some of the most uniquely rich fossil records in the country. From our backyards to the museums and monuments around us, our steps align frequently with the prehistoric. As it turns out, Colorado and dinosaurs go hand-in-hand, and it makes our state the perfect place to celebrate PBS’s Dinosaur Week.

Not only have we been ecstatic to be the premiere-site for the much anticipated six-part series WALKING WITH DINOSAURS, an exciting reimagining of one of the BBC’s best-loved factual shows, we have also been collaborating with local scientists to create local content investigating Colorado’s pivotal role in transcribing time before man. If you were to map out destinations in Colorado for the dinosaur enthusiast in your life, the page would quite literally be filled from edge to edge. Encased in the Morrison Formation, Colorado serves as a primary archaeological location during a period of discovery marked by the “Bone Wars.” Affectionately described as the Bone Rush, this denotes America’s late 1800’s scientifically significant tussle between two prevalent paleontologists that resulted in the discovery of 130+ Dinosaur species, including our state dinosaur: the Stegosaurus.