NPS Fossil Parks

National Park Service Fossil Parks:

• Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
  Nebraska (Mammals such as North American rhinoceroses and bison-sized "hell pigs") 

• Badlands National Park
  South Dakota (Ancient horses, rhinos and saber-toothed cats)

• Channel Islands National Park
  California (Pygmy mammoths) 

• Death Valley National Park
  California 

• Denali National Park & Preserve
  Alaska (Dinosaur tracks, dung and skin impressions)

• Dinosaur National Monument
  Utah & Colorado (Dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Allosaurus)

• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
  Colorado (Petrified wood and insect and leaf impressions)

• Fossil Butte National Monument
  Wyoming (Some of the world's best preserved fossils of ancient fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, insects and plants; articulated skeletons)

• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
  Utah (Plesiosaurs and dinosaur tracks)

• Grand Canyon National Park
  Arizona (Trilobites, crinoids, brachiopods, plants, tracks, etc.)

• Guadalupe Mountains National Park
  Texas (Capitan Reef!)

• Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
  Idaho (The Hagerman Horse, Equus simpicidens, the first true horse)

• John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
  Oregon (Saber/spike-toothed salmon, ancient horses, brontotheres, "hell pigs", oreodonts, bear-dogs)

• Lake Mead National Recreation Area
  Arizona & Nevada (Coral Reefs and petrified wood)

• Petrified Forest National Park
  Arizona (Petrified wood and archosaurs)

• Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
  Nevada (Mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and ancient camels)

• Waco Mammoth National Monument
  Texas (Only recorded nursery herd of Columbian mammoths)

• Yellowstone National Park
  Wyoming (various invertebrates, vertebrates and fossil plants)