Connecticut Dinosaur Trips

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Powder Hill Dinosaur Footprint Park

A little known spot with a long history. This small park is an example of the type of place where footprints were first found, and the kinds of rocks and conditions that early track hunters searched to find.

Dinosaur Footprints Reservation, Holyoke, MA

There's a scene at the beginning of Jurassic Park where Sam Neill first spots a group of enormous plant-eaters and says, "They do move in herds!"

The idea that some dinosaurs may have been social animals is also one rooted in the valley. Footprints give evidence of dinosaurs as living beings, and parallel trackways found at Dinosaur Footprints Reservation, at the foot of Mt. Tom, in Holyoke, MA, were the first to get scientists to speculate about herding behavior.

Nash Dinosaur Tracks, S. Hadley, MA

A quirky roadside attraction in the great American tradition, the Nash family has run this quarry for generations.

A small quarry behind the old store still yields tracks. Inside are all sorts of fossil and minerals and souvenirs. Nash quarry has its own place in local dinosaur folklore.

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