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Thanks to an unfortunate traffic incident (Traffic? In California? On a Friday afternoon? Nah!), I arrived at the Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center a scant thirty minutes before they closed for the day. I booked it into their information desk\/gift shop area to inquire about purchasing two adult admission tickets, and was pleased to learn that in the Jurupa Mountains, discovery comes free of charge. I was a little less pleased when the employee recommended that I check out their museum and another chimed in with “You can’t, I already closed it up for today because I didn’t think anyone else was coming.” Your psychic abilities leave much to be desired, sir. And evidently unlocking the door was a bridge too far. It’s fine, the grounds themselves contained more than thirty minutes of discovery possibilities, so I got cracking.<\/p>\n

In addition to the closed museum, the Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center spans nine acres, acting as a botanical garden, nursery, turtle zoo, and chock full of something that lured me to their gates: dinosaur sculptures. Everywhere, all kinds. The website proclaimed that they have “over ten” dinosaur sculptures, and I was going to do my damndest to see how many I could find.<\/p>\n

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\"jurupa<\/a>One. One metal T-Rex having fun.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Two. A styracosaurus welcomes you to the land of discovery.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Three.\u00a0 A cross between an allosaurus and a shar-pei.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Four. What appears to be a pointing Abraham Lincoln riding a triceratops, which is something I would have assumed I’d remember him being famous for doing in history class, so I guess we know which brain cells the alcohol attacked first.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Five. A two-wheeled trike bike.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Six. This character reminded me the most of the dinosaurs at Dinosaur World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Seven. A boy and the triceratops he’s clearly outgrown.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Eight. A skeletal apatosaurus.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Nine. My favorite, hands down. Look at its adorable colorful boxiness!<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Ten. The rarely seen and presumed mythological honeybuckasaurus, who only darts to the bathroom when he thinks he isn’t being observed.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Eleven.\u00a0 Tail for daaaaaaays.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Twelve. A Corythosaurus? Maybe?<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Thirteen and fourteen, with a bit of eleven in there. Dino convention.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Fifteen. Some manner of angry duck-billed dinosaur.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Not a dinosaur.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Sixteen. The polka dot or modclothasaurus.<\/p>\n

\"jurupa<\/a>Seventeen and eighteen. Prime position for a Prattkeeping<\/a> photo if anyone were still doing those.<\/p>\n

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I think it may be time to update their website with a new dinosaur count, because even at eighteen, I’m pretty sure I didn’t see them all. Plus “over fifteen” or “almost twenty” sounds far more impressive than “over ten”. There were multiple areas that were closed off without a guide, I never made it into the turtle area, and nine acres is a lot of ground to cover in thirty minutes, even for two highly motivated adults. There were so many non-dinosaur related things to see as well, and as someone who has ooh-d and aaah-d and killed many a plant, this place was right up my alley. What I’m saying is, I wouldn’t object if my local nursery started filling up with dinosaur sculptures to get me in there a little more often.<\/p>\n

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