Powder Hill Dinosaur Park — Attraction in Middlefield

Awesome dinosaur's prints.🌲 The park is on the north slope of the hill along Powder Hill Road. To the west you’ll see the Powder Ridge ski hill, and to the east sprawls Lyman Orchards. 🌲 Once at the park, you hop out of your car, walk about 30 feet onto some rocks and voila. Dinosaur tracks! You can’t really walk anywhere else, as this tiny little park is fenced in. 🌲 Back in 1846 this area was owned by a guy named Wesley Coe. He gave Middlefield permission to quarry stone from his property to build the Beseck Dam. Then they found the tracks and let them alone.  Coe went on to become a professor at Yale and a Curator of Zoology at the Peabody Museum down there. 🌲 Coe gave the property to the Peabody and it was known as the “Peabody Museum Outdoor Park” for quite a long time. But then in 1976 the Peabody – which is 20 miles away from here – gave the park to Middlefield. And here we are today. 🍁 You can’t miss the big tracks. But there are also some small tracks here as well.🍁 The largest prints (about 25 cm in length) are the Eubrontes giganteus trackmaker prints. The medium ones are called Anchiauripus and the smallest ones (under 15 cm) are called Grallator. 🌲 We do know that the prints date back to the early Jurassic period, about 200 million...

It’s a tiny park but I gave it a 5 star because my family felt fortunate to be able to walk on the area where DINOSAURS used to roam. HOW COOL IS THAT! It’s amazing to be able to touch a fossilized dinosaur footprint. How many people in this planet can say that? Yes it’s a tiny park with few dinosaur footprints but the experience is priceless to have the opportunity to be, where the dinosaurs used to be. It was worth our time. It’s free. It’s a short stop right on the side of the road. The rocks were a little wet from the rain and so the photo doesn’t do much justice. It’s a wonderful teaching experience to stir up children’s imagination! It’s 2 minutes from Lyman orchard and 3 minutes from Powder Ridge Mountain...

A small, free park that is really fun to visit if you’ve ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs. Where Eubrontes and Grallators once roamed, you can also explore and discover their many preserved tracks.

This is a small area, so your visit will probably be no longer than 10 or 20 minutes.

If you or your kids are dino-enthusiasts and you want to explore an even larger, more preserved terrain of dinosaur footprints, then make the 20-minute drive to Rocky Hill’s famous “Dinosaur State Park.” There you can purchase tickets to their museum to see tracks and learn more about the dinosaur that belongs to Connecticut’s State Fossil:...