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Dinosaur State Park & Museum
400 West Street
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
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“Dinosaur State Park” Fodors.com
“Dinosaur State Park” PlanetWare.com
“Leaping Lizards - Really Big Ones - in Connecticut” Washington Post (free registration required)
“What's Doing in Hartford” New York Times (free registration required)
TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 2 attractions in Rocky Hill
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Traveller Description: Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT features the largest enclosed dinosaur track site in North America.  The 200-million year old sandstone trackway more »
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Attraction type: Museum, Park, State park
Address: 400 West Street Rocky Hill, CT 06067
Tel: 860-529-8423
Fax: 860-257-1405

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“Who would have thought footprints could be so amazing?”
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5 of 5 stars
traveltode
usa
8 Apr 2009

Connecticut is a haven for fossilized dino footprints. The displays are excellent and very well designed. Whoever did the demos for this place got it right and kids as well as adults pay attention. Plus there are miles of interpreted hiking trails and you can make a plaster cast of a real fossil footprint! Do this with the kids and... more

“200 Million Year Old Sandstone Trackway”
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5 of 5 stars
redeco
Warren, Massachusetts
16 Feb 2009

Dinosaur State Park is a terrific place to visit. The largest enclosed dinosaur track site in North America, there are hundreds of early Jurassic tracks easily seen from walkways over the site. Discovered in 1966 while excavating for a building site, the tracks are amplified through the use of dioramas showing Jurassic period dinosaurs that probably made these tracks. The... more

“Going Back hundreds of millions years”
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5 of 5 stars
biddingforhotel
Edison, NJ
12 Jun 2006
5
people found this review helpful

Coming to this famous Dinosaur State Park no problem taking exit 23 of I-91 following the sign. There are plenty of parking lots which are free. It opens fairly early but we got there around 10am on Sunday morning when there are already many vistors. We followed the footprints and side walk leading to the giant geodesic dome and paid... more

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Dinosaur State Park & Museum Address

400 West Street, Rocky Hill, CT 06067
Tel: 860-529-8423 Fax: 860-257-1405