Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum

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The Dinosaur State Park is located south of Rocky Hill in Hartford County of the U.S. state of Connecticut. In the 25 -acre State Park features an arboretum and a geodesic dome, are protected under the 500 dinosaur footprints with an age of 200 million years ago the weather.

The 25-40 cm large footprints were discovered in 1966 by Edward McCarthy and assigned to the Eubrontes giganteus by the geologist Edward Hitchcock. The site was quickly secured and covered, fenced the site and opened in the same year as Dinosaur State Park. Meanwhile, annual visitor numbers of around 50,000 are recorded. The dinosaur trackway was classified as a National Natural Landmark in 1968.

Dinosaur State Park Arboretum

The arboretum is to show representatives of as many plant families that were present already in the Mesozoic, when dinosaurs were still alive. About 250 species have so far been planted. These include wood collections of spruce, fir, cedar, pine, long-lived conifers and Far East Asian conifers. Furthermore, a rock garden and a garden East Asia have been created.