Other Fossil Parks

Out of over 430 parks and monuments managed by the National Park Service, an astonishing 286 contain fossils however, only 18 of those were established wholly or in part for their fossils! The following are parks that focus largely on fossils.

 

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  Nebraska

  Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

  Discover Miocene mammal fossils as well as the story of Lakota and local ranchers.

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  South Dakota

  Badlands National Park

  Badlands National Park also has fossils of brontotheres, nimravids, and oreodonts.

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  Colorado, Utah

  Dinosaur National Monument

  Discover the dinosaurs of 150-million years ago.

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  Colorado

  Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

  Journey back 34 million years ago, to an Ancient Redwood Forest.

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  Wyoming

  Fossil Butte National Monument

  Visit America's aquarium in stone to discover the life that used to live in and around an ancient lake 52-million years ago.

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  Idaho

  Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

  Step back in time three to four million years ago and discover mastodons, sloths, horses and more.

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  Arizona

  Petrified Forest National Park

  View the amazing, petrified tree stumps from 200-million years ago. The park is also well-known for its reptile fossils.

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  Nevada

  Tule Springs National Monument

  Explore the last ice age at this new park. There are no amenities or visitor center and only a few trails have been created so far.

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  Texas

  Waco Mammoth National Monument

  Visit America's first and only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of ice age Columbian mammoths.

 

Discover other National Park Service sites with documented paleontological resources including sites where fossils occur in-place in the rock (in situ), in museum collections, and/or within a cultural context.