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2. Dinosaur Park - Wikipedia

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   Dinosaur Park is a dinosaur park in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the City of Rapid City and the Works Progress Administration, [2] WPA ...

3. 30 of the Oldest Roadside Attractions in the U.S. You Can ...

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   Dinosaur Park (Rapid City, South Dakota. Dinosaurs are a popular theme for roadside attractions, including this iconic park that dates to the 1930s. The park began as a Works Progress ...

4. Rapid City, South Dakota - Wikipedia

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   Rapid City has expanded into the foothills, with developments having been built on both ridges and in valleys developed, especially in the last 20 years. This arid edge area has a higher risk of wildfire, as shown by the Westberry Trails fire in 1988. View of the city from Dinosaur Park

5. List of dinosaur parks - Wikipedia

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   Has at least 16 full-sized models, including non-dinosaurs. Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, opened 1936; Dinosaur Park, Cedar Creek, Texas [16] Dinosaur World, Glen Rose, Texas; George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park, Ogden, Utah over 100 life sized prehistoric creatures, a functioning paleontology lab, and a fossil and gemstone museum. [17]

6. Emmet Sullivan (sculptor) - Wikipedia

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   Emmet Sullivan, (May 27, 1887 – November 3, 1970) was an American sculptor. He was born in Powder River, Montana, and claimed to have worked on Mount Rushmore. He created the five dinosaurs in Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1934, his first large-scale project. [1] His other dinosaur creations were the Apatosaurus at Wall Drug in ...

7. Reptile Gardens - Wikipedia

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   Location. Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Annual visitors. 250,000–300,000 (2012)[1] Website. www.reptilegardens.com. Reptile Gardens is a reptile -focused zoo south of Rapid City, South Dakota, on US 16 between Rapid City and Mount Rushmore. [2] The park is open from the first Saturday of March through November 30 each year.

8. File:Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota LCCN2010630609.tif

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   Dinosaur Park - 1930 WPA project. Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore.

9. Paleontology in South Dakota - Wikipedia

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   Paleontology in South Dakota refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of South Dakota. South Dakota is an excellent source of fossils as finds have been widespread throughout the state. [1]: 254–255 During the early Paleozoic era South Dakota was submerged by a shallow sea that would come ...