Anyone been to Dinosaur State Park in CT?

[Spinning]

If so was it worth it? We are headed to CT this summer and thought we might like to stop and see this. Would love any info!
Thanks

 

[stinkerbelle]

There's a dinosaur state park in Connecticut?

dang - really need to learn some more about my home state! hehehe

what town is it in?

 

[monkeyboy]

Dinosaur????? In New England????

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Dinosaur+state+park&spell=1


http://www.dinosaurstatepark.org/

 

[Kimberle]

Originally posted by stinkerbelle
There's a dinosaur state park in Connecticut?

dang - really need to learn some more about my home state! hehehe

what town is it in?

Me too, I had no idea!

My 5 yo loves dinasaur's too!

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by Kimberle
Me too, I had no idea!

My 5 yo loves dinasaur's too!

Evidently it's in Rocky Hill...exit 23 off 91...

I honestly don't remember ever seeing signs for it...but the ride on 91 between 84 and 691/15 is pretty boring. heheh

 

[Spinning]

YEP! Gee glad to give some info! Their offical web site doesn't give a whole lot of info! It is about an hour from my friend's house so I want to make sure the kids will be happy sitting in the car that long...it takes us about 4 hours to get to her house Hate to pop them back in the car for another hour if it isn't great!

 

[matjef9091]

I went there many years ago with my boys. They were like 6 and 7 and they are now 12 and 13 so go figure. Seems to me it was small but okay to visit. If I remember right they mold plaster paris molds of dino feet.. it was okay, nothing really sticks in my mind...

sorry

sherry

 

[nancy679]

I went last year and I can barely remember much of it.

It is very small, I think we paid $3 to get in, and we walked thru in about 5 minutes. THen there are some trails you can walk thru the woods.

I dont think its worth going out of your way to visit.

 

[poohtown]

if you're going because your kids are into dinosaurs, i have a better place to go. (the park seems geared to older people in my opinion). Anyways, in Montville there is a place called Natures Art that is really fun. It could be considered expensive depending how much you're used to paying for things - I found it pretty reasonable.

Going to try not to sound like an ad:

first the store part - tons of minerals, toys, dinosaur stuff, etc.

they have a room with skeletons (they charge $1.00 each or ask at the desk for a shopping pass and you can get in free)

downstairs are activities for children: sand art, spin art, digging for gems in mines, panning for gold, digging for bones. Each thing has a different charge ranging from a couple bucks up to ? 25.--or more depending how much you do and what you want with it. I know they sell package deals if you have more than one child. My 8 year old did the mine. For less than $11.00, she received a bucket and was lead into a very realistic cave. There she was given something like 10 minutes to dig in the pebbles for gems. She found alot (compared to buying them seperately she did pretty well). Then she went out to a specimen table and found the names of each one. We also cut a geode which was another $10.--.

Outside they have a huge dinosaur park - that cost $7.- for adult and $5.- for kids. (i figure it's worth it because you can spend the whole day lounging around and the money goes to buying more dinosaurs). So in the park they have a small playground, picnic tables, and really nice trails that have life-size dinosaurs throughout. I think there were about 20 when we went. They also are going to have a volcano starting memorial day (we just missed that).
wish i could get my scanner to work, I'd post some pics we took.

i can give you alot of stuff to do in ct and give you price ideas if you want

 

[matjef9091]

poohtown, where do you live? I am only 5 minutes from the store off of rte 85...

sherry

 

[monkeyboy]

Where ws that park in Pee Wee's Big Adventure that had the life sized dinosaurs?

 

[alecam]

I have also been to Nature's Art in Montville for a birthday party!!

It is a great place! My two boys (2 and 4)absolutely loved it!Very geared toward children!

 

[Divamomto3]

Wow, glad I'm not the only one in Connecticut that didn't know about the Dinosaur Park!

That one in Montville sounds great...and hey, isn't that close to the casino for me! LMAO

 

[alecam]

Originally posted by Divamomto3
Wow, glad I'm not the only one in Connecticut that didn't know about the Dinosaur Park!

That one in Montville sounds great...and hey, isn't that close to the casino for me! LMAO

About 15-20 mins away!!!Not too far!<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_15_3.gif' alt='Craps' border=0></a>

 

[matjef9091]

The Dino Park is right off of rte 85 (goes right past crystal mall) right after the chesterfield intersection. They also have a good ice cream place on the grounds now...

sherry

 

[poohtown]

Originally posted by matjef9091
poohtown, where do you live? I am only 5 minutes from the store off of rte 85...

sherry

hey, right down the street from you in Colchester. Maybe I've bumped into you around town.

 

[ZebraStripes]

Hey all you fellow CT people!!

I did a lot of my Christmas shopping here! My favorite are the Mt. St. Helen's earings. The greenest stone I have ever seen.

 

[matjef9091]

Poohtown and all the rest of my "neighbors", gosh didn't know there were so many of us around here!!!

 

[poohtown]

lol - we should have a dis-meet at Natures Art!!!

 

[alecam]

Originally posted by poohtown
lol - we should have a dis-meet at Natures Art!!!

Maybe they would let us put Mickey hats on the dinosours!!