Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Administration, WPA Project #960's dinosaurs were designed by Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan also designed the "Apatosaurus" (formerly thought of as a synonym of "Brontosaurus") at Wall Drug nearby in Wall, South Dakota, the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the
Wyoming Dinosaur Center on the property is from the "Something Interesting" or SI excavation site. This site presents the rare occurrence of both dinosaur trace fossils and body fossils including footprints of many Sauropods and "Allosaurus" as well as skeletal remains from "Camarasaurus, Diplodocus," and "Apatosaurus" - three of the sauropods most common in the area during the Late Jurassic. Most of the bones belong to a juvenile (30 foot long) "Camarasaurus" that was scavenged by many "Allosaurs". This is known based on the presence of both teeth and claw marks on many of the bones present as well as an abundance of