Moab Giants — Attraction in Four Corners States

Great place! My girlfriend and I have had a bit of a dinosaur museum weekend, visiting the museums in Price (Utah), Fruita (Colorado), and finally our own museum in our home of Moab.

This museum was certainly the most unique of the three with the outdoor walk featuring life-size models of dinosaurs found in this area. Something I really liked about the informational displays was each one showed you where tracks/dinosaurs had been found. Each display talked about the dinosaur, had a replica of a track, a detail of the head, and a size comparison of the dinosaur and a person (which was a little redundant when it was right there in front of you). Kids will probably enjoy the walk, it's a half mile loop and has some spots were you can exit the trail and stand next to some of the models to really get up and personal. There is a dig pit located on the trail, some bathrooms, vending machines, and a sitting area with shade tarps and misters when it's hot outside. There is another separate play area for kids at the end of the trail, with jungle gyms and stuff to play on, along with another dig pit. Dino Carts are available for free as wagons to pull small kids around outside.

I would say a lot of the informational displays were geared more towards adults than small children, but they were very informative.

The indoor museum wasn't very big, but had a lot of interesting things. There is a lot of technology in there, the display signs seemed to be electronic or at least weren't your typical placard screwed into the wall. That made it a little difficult to get photos because of the reflections.

There were a few things in the museum small children might find interesting, but there isn't a lot to touch and it's really geared towards adults and older kids. There isn't as many dinosaur bones in there as you would expect, I think it focuses more on dinosaur tracks than anything else but there are few skeletons. The VR orb thing wasn't working so I didn't get to do that.

I will say as far as the museum and the models go, this seemed like the most up to date museum of the three we visited so far. There were also a couple of hand sanitizer stations around.

The final thing we experienced was the paleo aquarium. Tickets for this are separate from the tickets to the trail and museum. There are show times posted, and you wait outside the theater for the guide to open the doors and let you in. Once inside, you are instructed to get an appropriate pair of 3D glasses (there are 2 bins, one labeled for children and the other for adults). Once the glasses are on, it's time to start the tour. The guide escorts your group around the aquarium, which is video screens you view with your 3D glasses. The guide tells you about the various aquatic "life" inside the aquarium, which ranges from giant fish to mosasaurs to leviathan whales. At one point there's a "lab" and a mermaid is inside a glass cylinder in the lab. There wasn't an explanation for it and even the guide was like "I don't know why there's a mermaid". At the end you go into a separate room for the megalodon, with signs warning you about no flash photography. A pre-recorded voice comes on and tells you about the megalodons in the "tank". At one point, the sharks swim by or bump the observation window and the floor shakes under you (similar to the earthquake similar in Fruita). The voice starts berating guests for using flash photography, which falls flat when no one in the room is using a flash. I don't know if they don't use misters for this part or if they were off because it wasn't 100 degrees outside, but if they aren't using misters they missed an opportunity to add a little something to the show when the observation window "breaks". The paleo aquarium was definitely pretty neat, but you are guided through it so you can't sit and enjoy the videos at your leisure. This is also something I would advise skipping if you have more timid children. As an adult, I wasn't bothered by it at all, but there were one or two children in our viewing group that were...

Pros: fun little walk to see big dinosaur models we went on a Friday during the day and it wasn't too busy. there were a couple misters and a playground for little kids.

Cons: expensive. There is a cheaper option available that they say nothing about online. You can only buy VIP tickets in advance, but not the general admission tickets. the more expensive ticket includes two 3D movies that no one there could tell us anything about. The employees just told us they were kind of informational. So we had no information on what we were paying for with the more expensive ticket. their drinking fountains are the most disgusting water I have ever tasted. I thought my kids were being dramatic until I i tried it. we took our kids ages 1-12 to the 5D aquarium. It was fine, kind of cool to see the tanks of animals in 3D. Then they took us in the room at the end to see the megalodon movie and it was pretty gruesome for young kids. The recorded voice of the your guide starts yelling and panicking and you see blood squirt across the screen as the megalodon attacks and eats in front of you an octopus. The floor shakes and the glass starts to crack, then the man starts yelling "oh my G--! Get away from the glass." My 1-year-old started crying and I had to take her out. I felt bad opening the door to leave when 20 other people were standing there trying to watch. My 3-year-old asked why we went out and why that shark was killing everyone. From outside the theater, we heard the last two minutes of the megalodon crashing all the way through the glass and the sound of water rushing in. My older kids came out saying it was lame and it doesn't teach or show you anything useful.

It's fine that they have this jump scare movie for 6-year-olds, but I guess as a whole, this Park basically is geared toward kids 5-9 or so. Big kids are bored, little kids are scared, and I could have saved...

Interesting, fun experience I would definitely recommend seeing at least once while in Moab. My dinosaur loving daughter had a blast! The adults in our group enjoyed it as well, but found the overall experience a little lacking.

I was expecting more of an educational experience & don't feel like we really learned anything new about dinosaurs or how they lived or the land they inhabited. They have several casts & replicas of bones in their "museum," however there are no real bones, which was disappointing. The dinosaur walking loop is very neat, though my whole life I have sorely underestimated the actual size of dinosaurs if their models are life size. But that's on me.

Wasn't extremely busy when we went, on a Friday in late September. Weather was nice. They have several rest stops along the walking loop, with benches & misters set up to cool you down. However none of the misters worked more than dripping a few drops of nasty smelling water & it was clear they were not in working order due to buildup at the nozzles. Several drinking fountains along the route were working as well, but had foul, disgusting tasting hot water coming out, however.

Diner is overpriced & greasy-spoon style food, also took a long time to be made & the fries were soggy & cool by the time our number was called. Definitely not worth the price, in my opinion. Drive back into Moab & get decent food. Restaurant was messy, salt & spilled drinks all over the tables & floors. Since the park was not busy when we were there, the state of the diner was surprising & disheartening to find, especially after hours in the heat seeing dinosaurs.

Definitely do not miss the 5D aquarium, though. Graphics are amazing & the tour, while short, is informative &...