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<I'm heading
off to the New England states later this month, and am interested in trying to
locate some dinosaur sites in Connecticut and
Massachusetts.>
As a lifelong
resident of Connecticut, I'd say my two favorite places to go here are
Yale's Peabody in New Haven (off I-95) and the dino park in Rocky Hill (off
I-91). The Rocky Hill site, state operated, includes footprints made
by dinos traveling the muddy shoreline between Canada and New Jersey on
their vacation... uh, migration. It was a rainy day, you can see the
droplets in the rock, and traffic was heavy as ever.
The park also
includes an enjoyable walk over a swamp on a very long wooden bridge, though
I've never taken the walk in mosquito season.
The footprints
continue outside the building, and you have a chance to do a casting or actually
find prints on your own.
Don't allow a
whole day for it, but makes for a good few hours. The tracks, 3 toed and
said to resemble dilophosaur, are the state 'fossil'.
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