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
Dinosaur Park dinosaurs at the now closed Dinosaur World in Beaver, Arkansas. The park is located at 940 Skyline Drive and is maintained by the city of Rapid City. Admission is free, however steep flagstone stairs may limit handicapped accessibility. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1990. Dinosaurs represented in the park include "Apatosaurus", "Tyrannosaurus rex", "Triceratops", "Stegosaurus", and an "Edmontosaurus annectens" (formerly "Anatotitan" which itself formerly "Trachodon"). A "Protoceratops" and a "Dimetrodon" ("Dimetrodon" is not actually a dinosaur, but rather a synapsid, and more closely related to mammals than reptiles) were added later