Como Ridge

Como Ridge refers to the same anticline ridge known as Como Bluff — a roughly 10-mile-long, mile-wide fold of rock about 5 miles east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, straddling Carbon County [1][2]. This is one of the most important dinosaur fossil sites in history: railroad workers found exceptional bones here in 1877, and it became the epicenter of the "Bone Wars," the bitter rivalry between paleontologists O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope that ran until 1889 [1][2]. Marsh alone shipped 480 boxes of fossils out of these quarries; one Como Bluff quarry (Quarry 9) alone produced roughly 250 Jurassic mammal specimens [1][2]. All of that history sits on private land today. You can view the ridge and its historical marker from Highway 30/287, but the bone quarries themselves are closed to the public — this is a look-from-the-road site, not a collecting site.

About 4-5 miles east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, on U.S. Highway 30/287, Carbon County [1][3]. The ridge and a historical marker are visible from the highway pull-off.

None. There are no bone quarries open to the public here, and collecting fossils from federal land is prohibited outright; the historic quarries themselves sit on private land that's off-limits [3]. Entry into the historic Fossil Cabin structure and the nearby house is also prohibited [3].

Como Ridge/Como Bluff is private land [1][3]. Travelers can stop, view the ridge, and read the historical marker from the highway, but there's no legal path to collecting bone material here — the working quarries that made this site famous are closed and off private ranch ground. For general fossil collecting on Wyoming private land elsewhere, the standard advice is to get written landowner permission first [3]; for anything on federal land, note that vertebrate fossil collecting is prohibited without a permit.