Waco Mammoth Dig Shelter — Attraction in Waco

I really enjoyed visiting this site. The mammoth (and other animals) fossils are incredible, I can only imagine how the world must have looked back then.

You can choose to have a guided tour, or just purchase your ticket and go in unguided. The guided tour seems to be interesting, but given the relatively small size of the dig area containing the fossils, I prefer the route I took of going in unguided and getting a chance to take more pictures of the dig, and having more time to look at the fossils before the place got crowded with the tour.

I love our national parks, and I want to thank the National Parks Service for what they do. I have not been to a single National Park that I did not enjoy, and the personnel is always courteous, knowledgeable,...

This is alive dig. This process is painstaking slow. They've done 20ty yrs of digging. Now inventorying and sifting. You arrive at a nice parking lot and gift shop. FYI, the only bathrooms are at the giftshop. You wait a few minutes for your guide. Then, we proceed to walk up a wheelchair/stroller accessible concrete path to dig, which is in a building. Don't let littleones bring in loose items. And keep an eye on them. As you see in the pictures, you are actually...

As an extension of the main park being able to visit and see an actual dig site with bones in ground was amazing. You could see the bones of not only a mammoth but other animals like a camel and a couple other yet to be identified. This was a huge treat for my son as he wants to be a paleontologist in the future. He had a chance to see that not everything is dug up and that he will still have plenty of time to make his own discoveries and help...