"Western Wyoming Community College is home to five life sized dinosaur displays. They are the largest easily accessible collection of dinosaurs along I-80 from Chicago to San Francisco. In-order to bring Wyoming dinosaurs back to Wyoming, a fund raising project began in 1989 to collect and display specimens native to Wyoming from throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era. The dinosaurs on display are:
- Camptosaurus near the bookstore which was originally found in the fossil dinosaur beds at Como Bluff, east of Rawlins Wyoming in 1879.
- The giant Plesiosaur which lines the hall way leading to Mitchell's Dining Hall.
- Stegosaurus is one of the first dinosaurs found in Wyoming in 1878 at Como Bluff east of Rawlins.
- Triceratops was discovered in eastern Wyoming near Lance Creek in 1889.
- The mighty Tyrannosaurus watches over the diners at the T-Rex Grill.
All the dinosaur displays are free and open to the public whenever the college is open." https://www.westernwyoming.edu/about/visit/dinosaurs.html
WWCC is in southwest Wyoming, 1/2 mile off I-80, only 128 miles north of another dinosaur fossil exhibit - Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur National Monument near Jensen, Utah.
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