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 State Park and Arboretum a new state office building. The site opened as Dinosaur State Park in 1968, the same year its dinosaur trackway was memorialized as a Registered National Landmark. The park's geodesic dome (see picture at right) encloses some 500 tracks while another 1,500 remain buried for preservation. The tracks are from the early Jurassic period and were made over 200 million years ago on what must have been a sandy shore of a lake, by a carnivorous dinosaur similar to "Dilophosaurus". The tracks bear the name "Eubrontes", the term for fossilized footprints invented by geologist Edward Hitchcock. The tracks range from