Out of 417 parks and monuments managed by the National Park Service, an astonishing 260 contain fossils however, only 16 of those were established wholly or in part for their fossils!. The following are parks that focus largely on fossils:
Learn more about 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.