Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
Tucked onto a Claremont school campus about an hour east of downtown LA, this small accredited museum holds one of the country's best collec…
Fossil digs & trails
Want to dig for fossils or walk real dinosaur footprints? These 18 fossil dig sites and trackways let kids touch prehistory. Find a dinosaur dig near you on the map.
Dinosaur Fossil Park, Raiyoli
Raiyoli is one of the world's largest dinosaur nesting grounds and the site where Rajasaurus narmadensis was discovered, now protected as a …
Parque Paleontológico Bryn Gwyn
Opened in 1992 as South America's first paleontological park, this badlands site lets families walk a marked trail through real exposed foss…
Chicago Children's Museum: Dinosaur Expedition
Modeled on a real Saharan dig led by Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, this permanent exhibit lets kids excavate replica bones from a sand…
Dinosaur National Monument Quarry Exhibit Hall
Inside this glass-walled building, roughly 1,500 dinosaur bones remain embedded in the original rock face exactly as paleontologists uncover…
Dinosaur Park
A genuine active fossil site about 20 minutes from downtown D.C., where families can dig alongside real paleontologists for 115-million-year…
Dinosaur Ridge
A National Natural Landmark on the hogback just west of Denver where kids can put their hands next to real dinosaur footprints preserved in …
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Real sauropod and theropod tracks sit exposed right in the limestone bed of the Paluxy River, and in low-water months kids can wade out and …
Sangjogam Coastal Dinosaur Trackway
A short walk from the Goseong museum, real fossilized dinosaur footprints are exposed on a coastal rock shelf, among the first dinosaur trac…
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site (Hadrosaurus Park)
A National Historic Landmark since 1994, this quiet wooded mini-park marks the marl pit where William Parker Foulke excavated the Hadrosauru…
Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry Field Station
A short shuttle ride up into the hills from the main museum, this working excavation site lets families watch actual fossil digging in progr…
Lark Quarry Dinosaur Stampede Trackways
Around 3,300 fossilised footprints record the only scientifically documented dinosaur stampede ever found, preserved in rock for roughly 95 …
Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley
Built directly over the site where Lufengosaurus, China's first named dinosaur, was excavated, this museum lets families look down through a…
Museo de Sitio Las Huellas
This free open-air site museum puts families on metal walkways directly over a real 100-million-year-old footprint trackway, with prints lef…
Museo El Fósil
This community-run museum was built directly over the 1977 discovery spot of Kronosaurus boyacensis, a marine reptile whose nearly complete …
Parque Cretácico (Cal Orcko)
A limestone quarry wall just outside Sucre carries more than 12,000 dinosaur footprints from at least eight species, the largest and most di…
Proyecto Dino (Lago Los Barreales)
Run by a local university for 25-plus years, this open-air excavation site lets families take guided tours of an active dinosaur dig and a f…
Quthing Dinosaur Footprints
A sandstone slab about a kilometre outside town holds several trackways left by small two-legged dinosaurs, thought to belong to the plant-e…