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Camp with your whole family at 18 Road where you can easily bike on the area's famous trails and enjoy campfire delights. The mesas rise up in the background as you traverse the trails, hunt for dinosaur fossils and spend quality time with one another.

A Kid-Friendly Weekend Biking in Fruita

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The <a href="https://www.copmoba.org/">Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association</a> is dedicated to advocating for, building and maintaining sustainable singletrack mountain-bike trails in western Colorado.

Get Involved

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Over the Edge Sports

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and home of the "green supreme."

Starvin' Arvins Fruita

Dinosaur Journey Museum offers the latest exhibits about prehistoric giants and features a working paleontology lab. The Museum also offers Dino Digs where you can be a paleontologist for the day at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry.
Dinosaur Journey is a regional paleontological and geological museum that tells the story of the history of life in western Colorado and surrounding areas with real fossils, cast skeletons, and reconstructions of dinosaurs. The hands-on, interactive museum includes over 15,000 fossil specimens in its collections, exhibits, and displays featuring discoveries from the region, a viewable paleontology laboratory where dinosaur bones are prepared for display, an earthquake simulator, a sandbox for making your own dinosaur tracks, and a miniature "quarry site" where kids can uncover actual Jurassic dinosaur bones.

Dinosaur Journey Museum

El Tapatio is committed to serve the freshest ingredients on every plate. Our seafood plates are cooked carefully and making sure we pick the freshest fish for all of our plates.

El Tapatio

After pitching your tent, head for a quick ride on the 18 Road trails before dinner.

Set Up Camp

Enjoy world class single track mountain biking trails as well as designated routes for off-highway vehicles, and hiking. Camping is allowed in designated campsites.

18 Road Camping

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Head back to camp to sit in the cool night air and try to spot the Little Dipper and other constellations.

Stargazing

So you can get an early start, have breakfast at your campsite.

Morning Grub at Camp

The Zippity Do Dah Loop is more remote so you'll have the trails to yourself. The ride is high on ridges, which makes for more expansive scenery.

Bike the Zippity Do Dah Loop

Hot Tomato is Fruita's locally owned and operated pizzeria! We hand make all our dough, cut our toppings fresh and source locally produced meats. Come enjoy a great pizza and a cold beer.

The Hot Tomato

Take a break from cycling by digging for dinosaur fossils at Dino Digs. You might even discover new information about ancient lifeforms.

Dig for Fossils

Family restaurant featuring authentic mexican food.

Fiesta Guadalajara Restaurant

Stop by <a href="http://munchiesfruita.com/">Munchies Pizza &amp; Deli</a> to have an ice cream cone or milkshake for dessert.

Sweet Treats

Before you head on one last bike ride, fry up some home cookin&#039; on your camp stove or fire.

Camp Breakfast

Take one last ride on the Western Zippity or Vegetarian to Lower Chutes and Ladders trails for sweeping desert-esque views and a challenging trail ride.

Last 18 Road Ride

Munchies Pizza and Deli has been serving Fruita and surrounding areas since 1980. From pizza to burgers and salads to deli sandwiches, we offer what your taste buds are craving. Stop in today and try our Fruita Famous Burger!

Munchies Pizza & Deli

Imondi Wake Zone will provide a fun, safe and exciting experience for families and friends to learn and progress their wake board and watersports abilities using a cable system.

Imondi Wake Zone

Barbecue ribs, chicken and beef sandwiches, full menu.

Rib City Grill

Sheer-walled canyons, monoliths, colorful formations, bighorn sheep, soaring eagles and a spectacular road reflect the environment and history of plateau-and-canyon country. Hike, camp, picnic, rock climb, take ranger-led tours and drive historic Rim Rock Drive.

Colorado National Monument

Watch the sun disappear behind rock structures at Colorado National Monument for a great last activity in Fruita.

Sun Settin'

Great location and views! Friendly and comfortable. Continental breakfast. Free wireless Internet. Bike trails, hiking, horseback riding and rafting close by. Walk to restaurants.