United States National Parks
and Monuments Featuring Paleontology
*When you visit these parks and monuments, remember
that it
is VERY illegal to remove any fossils that you might find.
Instead, please mark the location of the fossils, report your find to a
park
ranger, and leave them for park paleontologists
to study.*
Parks and Monuments Outside the U. S.
Helpful Links to U.S. Government Websites National Parks Teacher's Materials State Parks Featuring Fossils City Parks Featuring FossilsA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Helpful Links to U. S Government Websites:
United States National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/
U. S. National Parks Geology
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/
U. S. National Parks Paleontology
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/geology/paleo/index.htm
Bureau of Land Management
http://www.blm.gov
U. S. D. A. National Forests
http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/states/select_forest.shtml
U. S. D. A. National Grasslands
http://www.fs.fed.us/grasslands/
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument; Harrison,
Nebraska
http://www.nps.gov/agfo/
Aniakchak National Monument; King Salmon, Alaska
http://www.nps.gov/ania/index.htm
Arches National Park; Moab, Utah
http://www.nps.gov/arch/
Badlands National Park; Interior, South Dakota
http://www.nps.gov/badl/
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve; Nome, Alaska
http://www.nps.gov/bela/index.htm
Big Bend National Park; Big Bend National Park, Texas
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/
Carlsbad Caverns National Park; Carlsbad, New Mexico
http://www.nps.gov/cave/
Curecanti National Recreational Area; Gunnison,
Colorado
http://www.nps.gov/cure/index.htm
Death Valley National Park; Death Valley, California
http://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm
Dinosaur National Monument; Dinosaur, Colorado
http://www.nps.gov/dino/
Dinosaur National Monument; Jensen, Utah
http://www.desertusa.com/dino/index.html
Dinosaur Ridge National Landmark; west of Denver,
Colorado
http://www.dinoridge.org/
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument;
Florissant, Colorado
http://www.nps.gov/flfo/
Fossil Butte National Monument; Kemmerer, Wyoming
http://www.nps.gov/fobu/
Glenn Canyon National Recreation Area; Page, Arizona
http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/GlennNRA/du_gcnra.html
Grand Canyon National Park; Grand Canyon, Arizona
http://www.nps.gov/grca/
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: Escalante, Utah (dinosaur tracks) http://www.recreation.gov/detail.cfm?ID=1863
Guadalupe Mountains National Park; Salt Flat, Texas
http://www.nps.gov/gumo/
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument; Hagerman,
Idaho
http://www.nps.gov/hafo/
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument; Kimberly,
Oregon
http://www.nps.gov/joda/
Mammoth Cave National Park; Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
http://www.nps.gov/maca/
National Park Service Geologic Resources
http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/geology/index.htm
Petrified Forest National Park; Petrified Forest
National Park, Arizona
http://www.nps.gov/pefo/
Petroglyph National Monument; Albuquerque, New
Mexico (archaelogical)
http://www.nps.gov/petr/
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite; Shell, Wyoming (BLM
land)
http://www.wy.blm.gov/whatwedo/tracsite/track.pages/intro2.html
Theodore Roosevelt National Park; Medora, North
Dakota (champsosaur)
http://www.nps.gov/thro/home.htm
Yellowstone National Park; Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming
http://www.nps.gov/yell/
Yosemite National Park; Yosemite, California
http://www.nps.gov/yose/
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve; Eagle ,Alaska
http://www.nps.gov/yuch/index.htm
Teacher's Corner
http://www.nps.gov/badl/teacher/teacher.htm
Teaching Geology and Paleontology in the National
Parks, a Teacher's Guide
http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/joda/books.htm
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park/University
of Nebraska State Museum; Royal, Nebraska
http://www.ashfall.unl.edu/
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park; Austin, Nevada
http://www.state.nv.us/stparks/bi.htm
Clayton Lake State Park; Seneca, New Mexico
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/nmparks/PAGES/parks/clayton/clayton.htm
Dead Horse Point State Park; Moab, Utah
http://www.utah.com/places/state_parks/dead_horse.htm
Dinosaur Ridge; Morrison, Colorado
http://www.dinoridge.org/index.html
Dinosaur State Park; Rocky Hill, Connecticut
http://www.dinosaurstatepark.org/
Dinosaur Valley State Park; Glen Rose, Texas
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/dinosaur/dinosaur.htm
Escalante State Park; Escalante, Utah
http://parks.state.ut.us/parks/www1/esca.htm
Falls of the Ohio State Park; Clarksville, Ohio
http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/
Fossil Collecting in Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webfossl/fosslbig.htm
George S. Eccles Dinsaur Park; Ogden, Utah
http://www.dinopark.org/
The Mammoth Site; Hot Springs, South Dakota
http://www.mammothsite.com/
Mill Canyon/Copper Ridge Dinosaur Trail; near Moab,
Utah
http://www.utah.com/places/public_lands/mill_canyon.htm
Mississippi Petrified Forest; Flora, Mississippi
http://www.mspetrifiedforest.com/
Red Fleet State Park; Vernal, Utah
http://parks.state.ut.us/parks/www1/redf.htm
Utah Field House of Natural History State Park;
Vernal, Utah
http://parks.state.ut.us/parks/www1/utaf.htm
Hartman Prehistoric Gardens in Zilker
Botanical Gardens; Austin, Texas
http://www.tmm.utexas.edu/exhibits/offsite/hartman/visit.html
Fossil Collecting Web Sites: (remember
to only collect fossils in areas where it is legal,
and you have received permission from the landowners!)
Victorian Fossil Localities
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~davidr/legal.html
"Fossil Hunter" List of Collecting Sites in the US
and Canada
http://www.iwaynet.net/~mperona/fossil.htm
Paleontological Society Code of Fossil Collecting
http://tigger.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/pscode.html