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Dinosaur Park
Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Administration, WPA Project #960's dinosaurs were designed by Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan also designed the ''Apatosaurus'' (formerly ''Brontosaurus'') at Wall Drug nearby in Wall, South Dakota, the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the dinosaurs at the now closed Dinosaur World in Beaver, Arkansas.
The park is located at 940 Skyline Drive and is maintained by the city of Rapid City. Admission is free, however steep flagstone stairs may limit handicapped accessibility. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1990.
==Dinosaurs on display==
Dinosaurs represented in the park include ''Apatosaurus'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Stegosaurus'', and an ''Anatotitan'' (formerly ''Trachodon''). A ''Protoceratops'' and a ''Dimetrodon'' (''Dimetrodon'' is not actually a dinosaur) were added later on and are located near the gift shop and parking lot. With the exception of the ''Protoceratops'', the dinosaurs they selected were based on fossils found in South Dakota and the Western United States.
The dinosaurs were constructed out of 2 inch black iron pipe, with a wire mesh frame and a concrete skin. Originally they were gray in color, but by the 1950s the statues were painted bright green with white undersides. Being constructed in the 1930s, the dinosaurs reflect the thinking of the times (i.e.:dragging tails). The tyrannosaur's original finger claws (of which it incorrectly had three on each hand) as well as its teeth have been lost or damaged over the years to where its hands are stumps and its teeth are all but gone. Vintage postcards of the ''T. rex'' do in fact show these were originally part of the sculpture. The ''Stegosaurus'' also had a shorter tail with 4 correct tail spikes, but this has changed recently where the tail spikes have been removed (perhaps due to safety concerns) and the tail considerably lengthened.
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