Press Coverage

The Colorado-X Hike, 1,500 miles

• The Denver Post, “At age 12, she discovered a famous dinosaur; 45 years later, she’s looking for new adventure“, February 27, 2024
• Stio blog and clothing catalog story, “Diagonal: An Uncharted Path across Colorado“, May 2023
• The Gazette and Out There Colorado, “She Walked across Colorado, Corners to Corners. The Reason Was Complicated”, February 12, 2023
• ExplorersWeb, “A Double-Diagonal Hike Across Colorado”, December 18, 2022
• The Trek, “India ‘Diagonal’ Wood May Be the First To Complete the ‘Colorado X'”, December 15, 2022
• Denver 7 News ABC, “Boulder Woman Criss-crosses Colorado by Herself While Raising Money for Charity”, September 20, 2022
• Denver 7 News ABC, “Boulder Woman Is Attempting to Criss-cross Colorado”, July 18, 2022
• KEKB FM, “Woman Embarks on 1,500-Mile Hike across Colorado for Great Cause”, July 30, 2022
• Out There Colorado, “Colorado Adventurer Aims to Trek 750 Miles across State”, July 19, 2022
• Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, “A New Trail”, September-October 2021
• Backpacker Magazine, “The Hiker Who Beelined Colorado”, January 2021
• Backpacker Radio podcast #84, “India Wood on Her Colorado Transect Hike”, October 2020
• The Colorado Sun, “Eager to Experience Colorado in a Different Way, a Boulder Woman Set Life aside to Forge a New Trail across the State”, July 22, 2020

The Allosaurus and India Wood

• Wall Street Journal, “Cattle Roam This $15.5 Million Colorado Ranch—but It Once Belonged to the Dinosaurs”, October 4, 2022
• “The Story of Allosaurus”, Benjamin Burger YouTube channel, 17,196 views, listen 17:50-19:30, 2020.
• Fanocracy book by management guru David Meerman Scott, includes two-page article on India Wood, 2020
• Beyond Science Standards: Play, Art, Coherence, Community, book by science educator Charles R. Ault, includes vignettes of Wood’s childhood, 2021
• KRCC radio podcast Wish We Were Here, Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug up Dinosaurs, 2016
• Ramblebrain blog, The Girl Who Found a Dinosaur, 2015
• Extinct Monsters blog, Denver’s Fighting Dinosaurs, 2015
• Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway book, by Kirk Johnson (now curator of Smithsonian) and Ray Troll, includes allosaurus story, 2007
• The Denver Post, “Dinosaur Find Buried in Past of ‘Girl Wonder'”, 1999
• PBS NOVA program, Curse of the T. Rex, online resources, 1997
• Boston Museum of Science and elsewhere: Prehistoric Worlds, Backyard Discoveries traveling exhibit featured diorama of my teen bone bedroom, BBH Exhibits, 1999
• Rocky Mountain News, “A Little Girl’s Big Discovery”, 1995
• KOAA Denver Channel Five Eyewitness News feature TV program, 1984
• Young Miss magazine, “She Has a Prehistoric Hobby”, 1984
• People magazine, “India Wood Makes No Bones about It: Her Colorado Dinosaur Find Is a Real Monster”, 1984
• Rocky Mountain News, “Growing up with Dinosaurs”, 1983
• KBTV Denver, Sundown 20-minute feature TV program, 1983

More Adventures

• Alamosa Citizen, “Walking 68 miles of the Valley, corner to corner,” about my hike across the San Luis Valley in September 2024
• SCFD blog, “Going the Distance with India Wood,” about my 90-mile hike across metro Denver in May 2024