Dinosaur Park

my kids are named after cities, one after Laurel, MD. so we had to take her to see her ‘city’.
park is small, basically 2 picnic benches and a hill of dirt. after a 15 min prep talk regarding dinosaurs and history of site, we saw some cased samples found in the area; then allowed in to look for any historical remains.
very cool, that dinosaurs roamed in very spot, but unless you’re an archaeologist or geologist (like my hubs), you’re find the experience meh. we spent maybe 35 min there, too hot on an August day to continue to stare at the dirt.

A kiddie park for the adventurous minds. I work on mid atlantic so I’ve passed by here on my way to work many times. It’s very educational. Open on Sundays for scavenger hunts and such

Been here twice .Love the experience especially with family.

This place is pretty cool if you or your kids are Dino lovers. As another reviewer mentioned, it is small. I couldn’t imagine being here more than a couple hours max. There are lots of rules, the biggest one being no digging! Being a mom of 2 boys I know the first instinct of most boys when they see rocks & dirt is to dig! That said I wouldn’t recommend bringing kids under age 5, or if you do be sure to have someone to watch the littler ones while the older ones do their thing. They do have a bunch of fossils to see in cases, but not a whole lot else aside from the fossil searching dirt. So, as I said prob not worth the trip unless you have bigger kids who have the patience & interest. The staff were pretty nice, although one guy was a little snappy when he mentioned we’d get kicked out if we were caught digging, I mean come on dude no one has a shovel & there is staff all around watching everyone. Oh yeah, make sure you come on the first or third sat between 12 – 4

A cute park situated in the urban heart of Laurel. It’s strange to think that we’re sitting on top of history. Or, pre-​history, rather. It is a very small park though.

I can’t believe this isn’t on Unilocal already because it’s pretty cool that we have an archaeological site open to the public behind a bunch of warehouses in Laurel. The Dinosaur Park is operated through PG County Parks and Rec. The park is free and open to the public on the 1^st and 3^rd Saturdays of the month. This is a really rare site with fossils from the Cretaceous Period (144 to 65 million years ago) and the conditions have been just right to preserve the fossils. You get a brief overview of the history of the site, the different types of fossils discovered there, and what to look for and then you are sent out on your own to look for fossils. Plenty of trained volunteers and an awesome paleontologist, who is absolutely everything you want him to be, are on hand to help you figure out if you found a super awesome petrified dinosaur bone that will be sent to the Smithsonian’s collection with your name attached or just a stupid rock. Great for all ages!
We found some really old bark, it didn’t look special, but it was from a tree that co-​existed with dinosaurs! Whhhaaaattt? You’re allowed to take home the bark, but after cleaning up ancient tree particles for a few weeks, we ended up tossing it.