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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
Brontosaurus) at Wall Drug nearby in Wall,
South Dakota, the Christ of the Ozarks
statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the
dinosaurs at the now closed Dinosaur World
in Beaver, Arkansas. The park is located at
940 Skyline Drive and is maintained by the
city of Rapid City. Admission is free,
however steep flagstone stairs may limit
handicapped accessibility. The park was
listed on the National Register of Historic
Places on June 21, 1990.
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