Dinosaur Valley State Park Camping

Dinosaur Valley State Park is a state park near Glen Rose, Texas, United States known for having 113 million year old well-preserved theropod and sauropod foot prints across five main tracks through out the 1.52k-acre park. The tracks were formed along the coast line of what was a vast inland sea, when these dinosaurs stuck their feet into fine-grained limy soft mud, their footprints were perfectly preserved. In 1909, the area was uncovered when a child discovered "large, three-toed tracks" along the river following a flood on the Paluxy River a year earlier. Around 1928, upon becoming aware of the site, paleontologist R.T. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, visited the area and discovered sauropod tracks, which was "the first proof that sauropods walked on land." Of note, some tracks were believed to be made by humans and sparked the idea by young-earth creationists that dinosaurs and humans once roamed earth together. The park is known for having two large sculptures of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Brontosaurus, created and donated by the Sinclair Oil Corporation.

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