Beyond TX Parks & Museums
State by State Fossil Resources
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Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa, AL
Birmingham Paleontology Society
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Alaska Museum of Science & Nature, Anchorage, AK
Alaska State Museum, Juneau
Denali National Park and Preserve
Museum of the North, Fairbanks
Pratt Museum, Homer
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Arizona Museum of Natural History
Glen Canyon Dam National Recreation Area
Grand Canyon National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
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Museum of Discovery, Little Rock
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Anza-Borrego State Park (Pleistocene mammals and marine fossils)
California Academy of Science, San Francisco
Channel Islands National Park
Death Valley National Park
John D. Cooper Center, Los Angeles
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
San Diego National History Museum
Petrified Forest, Calistoga
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont
Rainbow Basin Natural Area, Barstow
University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
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Denver Museum of Natural History
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison
Garden Park Fossil Area, Canon City
Florissant Fossils Beds National Monument
Museum of Western Colorado: Dinosaur Journey, Fruita
Trail Through Time, UT-CO border, I-70
Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway
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Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Mansfield
Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill
Dinosaur Trackway State Park (200 million year old tracks)
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven
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Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington
The Delaware Geological Survey Fossil Sites
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Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville
Florida Paleontological Society
South Florida Museum, Bradenton
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
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Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta
Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens
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Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Dinosaurs at Honolulu Community College
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (geology)
Kokee Natural History Museum, Kekaha
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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello
Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Caldwell
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Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Midwest Museum of Natural History, Sycamore
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Childrens Museum of Indianapolis
Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville
Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis
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Fossil and Prairie Park, Rockford (365 million year old marine fossils)
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Iowa City
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Big Bone Lick State Park (mammoths and giant sloths)
Kentucky Paleontological Society
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Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium
Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Baton Rouge
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Dorr Museum of Natural History, Bar Harbor
LC Bates Museum, Hinckley
Maine State Museum, Augusta
Northern Maine Museum of Science, Presque Isle
The Nylander Museum, Caribou
Wilson Museum, Castine
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Calvert Cliffs State Park (Miocene age marine fossils)
Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons
Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club
Dinosaur Park, South Laurel
Peale Museum, Baltimore
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Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge
Marion Natural History Museum, Marion
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A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Houghton
Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural History, Mount Pleasant
Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills
Kingman Museum, Battle Creek
Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing
Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor
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Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis
Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul
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Mastodon State Historic Site, Imperial (mammoth-relatives)
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson
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Bollinger County Museum of Natural History, Marble Hill
Kansas City Museum
St. Louis Science Center
The Stephens Museum, Fayette
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Blaine County Museum, Chinook
Carter County Museum, Ekalaka
Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum, Fort Peck
Frontier Gateway Museum, Glendive
Garfield County Museum, Jordan
Great Plains Dinosaur Museum, Malta
Makoshika State Park, Glendive
Montana Dinosaur Trail
Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman
Phillips County Museum, Malta
Two Medicine Dinosaur Center, Bynum
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Harrison
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (complete rhino skeletons)
Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Hastings
Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park, Crawford
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln
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Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Gabbs (abundant Mesozoic marine reptiles)
Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
Nevada State Museum, Carson City
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Las Vegas
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, Las Vegas
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Little Nature Museum, Warner
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness
Woodman Institute, Dover
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Clayton Lake State Park (more than 500 dinosaur tracks)
Eastern New Mexico University Natural History Museum, Portales
Mesalands Community College’s Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari
Miles Mineral Museum, Portales
Museum of Nature and Science, Las Cruces
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Museum, Socorro
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Las Cruces (280 million year old pre-dinosaur tracks)
Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu
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American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo
Wild Center, Tupper Lake
New York State Museum, Albany
Niagara Science Museum, Niagara Falls
Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca
Pember Library and Museum of Natural History, Granville
Penn Dixie Paleontological & Outdoor Education Center, Hamburg
Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport
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Aurora Fossil Museum, Aurora
Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington
Colburn Earth Science Museum, Asheville
Duke Lemur Center, Durham
McKinney Geology Teaching Museum, Boone
Museum of North Carolina Minerals, Spruce Pine
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
North Carolina Fossil Club
Onslow County Museum, Richlands
Rankin Museum of American Heritage, Ellerbe
Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia
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Dakota Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson
Dakota Prairie Grasslands, Medora Ranger District Office, Dickinson
Dickinson Museum Center, Dickinson
Dinosaur Capital of North Dakota, Marmarth
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, Medora
North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck
Paul Broste Rock Museum, Parshall
Pioneer Trails Regional Museum and Paleontology Department, Bowman
Long X Visitors Center, Watfort City
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora
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Caesar Creek State Park (500 million year old fossils)
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland
Karl Limper Geology Museum, Oxford
Trammel Fossil Park, Sharonville
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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman
The Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City
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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Journey Through Time Scenic Byway, eastern Oregon
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene
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The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Delaware County Institute of Science, Media
Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery, University Park
Everhart Museum, Scranton
North Museum of Natural History and Science, Lancaster
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Reading Public Museum, West Reading
Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia
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Rhode Island Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence
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Bob Campbell Geology Museum, Clemson
Charleston Museum, Charleston
McKissick Museum, Columbia
South Carolina State Museum, Columbia
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The former Fossil Cycad National Monument
Mammoth Site, Hot Springs
The Journey Museum, Rapid City
Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City
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Frank H. McClung Museum, Knoxville
Gray Fossil Site (fossil pit with 5 million year old mammals), Gray
Middle Tennessee Museum of Natural History, Murfreesboro
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BYU Museum of Paleontology, Provo
Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Price
Copper Ridge Dinosaur Tracks & Trail, Moab
Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway
Dinosaur National Monument
The Dinosaur Museum, Blanding
Dinosaur Stomping Ground Tracks, Moab
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Lehi City Hutchings Museum, Lehi
Mill Canyon Tracksite & Trail, Moab
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo
Museum of Moab, Moab
Museum of the San Rafael, Castle Dale
Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi
Red Fleet State Park, Vernal
St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, St. George
Trail Through Time, UT-CO border, I-70
USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Price
Utah Friends of Paleontology, Salt Lake City
Utah Field House of Natural History, Vernal
Weber State University Museum of Natural Science, Ogden
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Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsburg
Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich
The Nature Museum at Grafton, Grafton
Perkins Geology Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington
Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, Marlboro
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Hostetter Museum of Natural History, Harrisonburg
James Madison University Mineral Museum, Harrisonburg
Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Saltville
Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville
Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences, Blacksburg
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle
Charles R. Conner Museum, Pullman
Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park
Slater Museum of Natural History, Tacoma
Stonerose Interpretive Center and Fossil Site, Republic
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National Geographic Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Bluestone Museum, Hinton
The Lost World Caverns Visitor Center and Natural History Museum
West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Museum, Morgantown
West Virginia Natural History Museum, Morgantown
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Cable Natural History Museum, Cable
Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee
Stevens Point Museum of Natural History, Stevens Point
UW-Madison Geology Museum, Madison
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Draper Museum of Natural History, Cody
Fossil Butte National Monument
Natural History Museum of Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
University of Wyoming Geological Museum, Laramie
Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis
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Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia
Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia
McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site
Parc National De Miguasha UNESCO site, Quebec
Royal Tyrrell Museum, Calgary
Yoho National Park (Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia
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