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Visitor tip
Arrive for an afternoon guided tour to maximize your experience—tours are offered every afternoon and your guide will provide detailed context about the dinosaur trackways, local history, and species that inhabited the area 110 million years ago.
Visitor tip
This is excellent for families with young children: kids can participate in the fossil dig site, go on Dino hunts with binoculars, and enjoy interactive elements designed for toddlers and preschoolers, making it fun across multiple age groups.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Natural History Museum
- Location
- Texas Hill Country (between Startzville and Sattler on FM 2673)
- Highlights
- 200+ dinosaur footprints, 28 trackways, 110 million-year-old fossils, docent-guided tours
- Hours
- Wednesday-Sunday 12pm-4pm
- Features
- Fossil digs, hiking trails, gardens, Native American artifacts
What visitors say
Had a great time. The hike to the fossil area is easy and not long at all. We enjoyed looking at the footprints and learning about the history of the area. The little museum inside the gift shop is full to the brim and full of…
Museum that focuses primarily on its extensive Dinosaur tracks (which are undercover in an open walled building). Offers guided tours of the track area every afternoon. Tour take about 30 minutes. Our guide Haskell did a great job,…
Little but cute museum with tour included! We spent like an hour and a half there. Entrance $10 adults. They also have a store with tshirts and toys
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Did You Know?
- The museum preserves over 200 dinosaur footprints organized into 28 separate trackways from the Early Cretaceous period, dating back approximately 110 million years
- The museum operates as a non-profit organization, allowing it to offer admission without sales tax and keep merchandise prices more affordable than for-profit museums
- Educational docent-guided tours are offered approximately every 15-20 minutes and take about 30 minutes, providing detailed information about dinosaur species, trackway history, and local paleontology
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