Beyond TX Parks & Museums

State by State Fossil Resources

  • Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa, AL

    Birmingham Paleontology Society

  • Alaska Museum of Science & Nature, Anchorage, AK

    Alaska State Museum, Juneau

    Denali National Park and Preserve

    Museum of the North, Fairbanks

    Pratt Museum, Homer

  • Arizona Museum of Natural History

    Glen Canyon Dam National Recreation Area

    Grand Canyon National Park

    Petrified Forest National Park

  • Museum of Discovery, Little Rock

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington

    The Delaware Geological Survey Fossil Sites

  • Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville

    Florida Paleontological Society

    South Florida Museum, Bradenton

    Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park

  • Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta

    Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens

  • Bishop Museum, Honolulu

    Dinosaurs at Honolulu Community College

    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (geology)

    Kokee Natural History Museum, Kekaha

  • Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

    Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello

    Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Caldwell

  • Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford

    Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

    Illinois State Museum, Springfield

    Midwest Museum of Natural History, Sycamore

  • Childrens Museum of Indianapolis

    Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville

    Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis

  • Fossil and Prairie Park, Rockford (365 million year old marine fossils)

    University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Iowa City

  • Big Bone Lick State Park (mammoths and giant sloths)

    Kentucky Paleontological Society

  • Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium

    Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Baton Rouge

  • 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

  • Calvert Cliffs State Park (Miocene age marine fossils)

    Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons

    Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club

    Dinosaur Park, South Laurel

    Peale Museum, Baltimore

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis

    Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul

  • Mastodon State Historic Site, Imperial (mammoth-relatives)

    Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson

  • Bollinger County Museum of Natural History, Marble Hill

    Kansas City Museum

    St. Louis Science Center

    The Stephens Museum, Fayette

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Little Nature Museum, Warner

    Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness

    Woodman Institute, Dover

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman

    The Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City

  • John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

    Journey Through Time Scenic Byway, eastern Oregon

    University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene

  • 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

  • Rhode Island Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence

  • Bob Campbell Geology Museum, Clemson

    Charleston Museum, Charleston

    McKissick Museum, Columbia

    South Carolina State Museum, Columbia

  • 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

  • Frank H. McClung Museum, Knoxville

    Gray Fossil Site (fossil pit with 5 million year old mammals), Gray

    Middle Tennessee Museum of Natural History, Murfreesboro

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • National Geographic Museum

    Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

  • 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

  • Cable Natural History Museum, Cable

    Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee

    Stevens Point Museum of Natural History, Stevens Point

    UW-Madison Geology Museum, Madison

  • 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

  • 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

Thank You!

This exhibit was made possible by the donations of generous supporters of the Big Bend Conservancy.  Their legacy will continue to provide visitors with a world class exhibit experience for years to come.