The Beacon ran a terrific article this month on the Interurban - a light rail service which ran in the Grand Valley in the early part of the 20th century. Read about the interurban.
For more history on our region, check out our Grand Junction History in Pictures Timeline. It’s a great informative source, as [...]

This exhibit features a life-size, fleshed-out reconstruction of Fruitadens, one of the smallest adult dinosaurs in the world, found right here in the Grand Valley in 1976 by paleontologist (and Grand Junction resident) George Callison. Tiny adult dinosaurs are rare, and even more rare are plant-eating dinosaurs that weighed less than a house cat. Among [...]

Dinosaur fans give museum welcome boost in ‘09 visitation
Fifteen months ago, the administrators in charge of Dinosaur Journey were as desperate and distraught as a Tyrannosaurus rex roaming a land filled only with ferns and cycads.
The mechanical components of the Fruita museum’s dinosaurs that allowed them to spit, hiss and growl were breaking down. The [...]