By Virginia McConnell Simmons Meet Stegosaurus stenops, Colorado’s state fossil. The local popularity of dinosaurs is evident at Cañon City, where prison inmates created a large model of a Stegosaurus several years ago. It became a familiar mascot, once seen on the east side of town and later moved to the Fremont Campus of Pueblo Community College. Nearby on Skyline Drive, dinosaur tracks also can be viewed by visitors, and only a few miles, at Garden Park our state fossil was unearthed nearly intact. Once upon a time, not far from Cañon City, this strange beast, looking something like a ...