title: List of fossil parks
text: # List of fossil parks
  
  Following is a list of protected areas where fossils are preserved, known as fossil parks or fossil reserves, worldwide by country.
  
  ## Africa
  
  ### Egypt
  
  Wadi Al-Hitan - Valley of The Whales, Fayyoum, Western Desert
  
  ### South Africa
  
  West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaanweg, Western Cape
  
  ## Asia
  
  ### India
  
  There are two geological parks maintained by the Geological Survey of India:
  
  * Shivalik Fossil Park, Saketi, H.P.
  * Mandla Plant Fossils National Park
  
  ### Japan
  
  * Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum houses a fossilized forest and human artifacts
  
  ## Australia
  
  ### Australia
  
  **Victoria**
  
  * Dinosaur Dreaming
  * Dinosaur Cove
  
  **Queensland**
  
  * Riversleigh
  
  **South Australia**
  
  * Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve
  * Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area
  * Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site
  * Naracoorte Caves National Park
  * Nilpena Ediacara National Park
  * Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, near Woomera
  
  ## North America
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre, Saskatchewan
  * Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
  * Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia
  * Yoho National Park (Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia
  * Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia
  * McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site
  * Parc national de Miguasha UNESCO site, Quebec
  
  ### United States
  
  **Arizona**
  
  Petrified Forest National Park
  
  **California**
  
  * La Brea Tar Pits
  * Petrified Forest, Calistoga CA
  
  **Colorado**
  
  * Dinosaur National Monument, in Northwest Colorado and North-East Utah.
  * Dinosaur Ridge
  * Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
  
  **Connecticut**
  
  Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum
  
  **Florida**
  
  Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
  
  **Idaho**
  
  Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
  
  **Indiana**
  
  Falls of the Ohio State Park
  
  **Iowa**
  
  * Fossil and Prairie Park
  
  Fossilized leaves are one of many found here.
  
  * Devonian Fossil Gorge at Coralville Lake
  
  **Maryland**
  
  Dinosaur Park
  
  **Massachusetts**
  
  Dinosaur Footprints
  
  **Michigan**
  
  Rockport Quarry, an abandoned limestone quarry near Alpena open to collecting
  
  **Mississippi**
  
  Mississippi Petrified Forest
  
  **Nebraska**
  
  * Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
  * Ashfall State Historical Park
  
  **Nevada**
  
  * Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
  
  **New Jersey**
  
  Poricy Park
  
  **New Mexico**
  
  * Clayton Lake State Park
  * Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
  
  New York
  
  Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve
  
  **Ohio**
  
  * Hueston Woods State Park
  * Trammel Fossil Park, Sharonville, Ohio
  
  **Oregon**
  
  John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
  
  **South Dakota**
  
  * The Mammoth Site
  * Fossil Cycad National Monument (No longer exists)
  
  **Texas**
  
  * Dinosaur Valley State Park
  * Ladonia Fossil Park, Ladonia, Texas
  * Mineral Wells Fossil Park, Mineral Wells, Texas
  
  **Utah**
  
  * Dinosaur National Monument
  * Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
  * Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
  
  **Wyoming**
  
  * Fossil Butte National Monument
  * Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
  * Yellowstone National Park
  
  ## South America and Central America
  
  ### Argentina
  
  Ischigualasto is located in San Juan province
  
  ### Bolivia
  
  Cal Orcko in Sucre
  
  ### Brazil
  
  Paleorrota Geopark is located in Rio Grande do Sul.
  
  