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13 in-depth guides to the world’s great fossil destinations — quarries, parks, badlands, track sites, and museums where dinosaurs and Ice Age giants were discovered. Each guide covers geology, famous finds, how to visit, maps, photos, and the legal reality of collecting there.
Resource Hub Guide
Locality and region guides mapping where fossils originate and how geography shapes provenance, law, and market value.
Jensen, Utah & Dinosaur, Colorado · United States
The famous Quarry Exhibit Hall — a tilted rock wall studded with ~1,500 dinosaur bones left in place exactly as they were found.
National Monument · Late Jurassic (Morrison Formation), ~150 mya
Alberta (near Brooks) · Canada
The richest Late Cretaceous dinosaur badlands on Earth — over 50 species and thousands of specimens in major museums worldwide.
UNESCO World Heritage Site · Late Cretaceous (Dinosaur Park Formation), ~76–75 mya
Eastern Montana, the Dakotas & Wyoming · United States
The most famous dinosaur dig country on Earth — home turf of T. rex and Triceratops, and the source of most museum-grade tyrannosaur material.
Fossil Region / Dig Country · Late Cretaceous (Hell Creek Formation), 68–66 mya
Morrison, Colorado (near Denver) · United States
A roadside ridge where you can see both Jurassic dinosaur bones and a Cretaceous trackway with hundreds of footprints — within sight of Denver.
Track Site / National Natural Landmark · Jurassic & Cretaceous, ~150 mya and ~100 mya
Glen Rose, Texas · United States
Walk in the riverbed where giant sauropods and theropods left some of the best-preserved dinosaur trackways in the world.
State Park / Track Site · Early Cretaceous, ~113 mya
Abiquiú, New Mexico · United States
The site of one of the densest dinosaur bonebeds ever found — hundreds of the early dinosaur Coelophysis, jumbled together.
Historic Quarry / Education Center · Late Triassic, ~215–205 mya
Emery County, Utah · United States
The densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur bones known — and a puzzle: it's dominated by the predator Allosaurus.
Federal Quarry / National Natural Landmark · Late Jurassic (Morrison Formation), ~150 mya
Gobi Desert, Ömnögovi · Mongolia
The Gobi cliffs where the first scientifically recognized dinosaur eggs were found — and the home ground of Velociraptor and Protoceratops.
Historic Fossil Locality · Late Cretaceous (Djadokhta Formation), ~75–71 mya
Near Medicine Bow, Wyoming · United States
The legendary Wyoming railroad-cut where Cope and Marsh's 'Bone Wars' played out — one of the most productive Morrison quarries in history.
Historic Bone Wars Locality · Late Jurassic (Morrison Formation), ~150 mya
Zigong, Sichuan Province · China
China's 'Dinosaur City' — one of the world's largest dinosaur museums built over an active quarry with hundreds of Jurassic skeletons.
Museum / National Geopark · Mid–Late Jurassic (Shaximiao Formation), ~168–161 mya
Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland · United Kingdom
Scotland's Dinosaur Island — Middle Jurassic tracks, bones, and teeth eroding from coastal cliffs on the Trotternish Peninsula.
Coastal Track & Bone Site · Middle Jurassic (Bearreraig Bay / Valtos formations), ~170 mya
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California · United States
The world's most famous Ice Age fossil site — active tar pits in downtown LA preserving mammoths, saber-tooths, dire wolves, and thousands of other Pleistocene creatures.
Active Tar Seeps / Museum · Pleistocene / Ice Age, ~40,000–11,000 years ago
Teton County, Montana (Two Medicine Formation) · United States
The site that proved dinosaurs cared for their young — Maiasaura nests, eggs, hatchlings, and juveniles all found together.
Historic Nesting Site / Research Locality · Late Cretaceous (Two Medicine Formation), ~80–75 mya