Dinosaur Kingdom II

Natural Bridge, Virginia, United States

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Dinosaur Kingdom II is a seasonal walk-through roadside park at Natural Bridge, Virginia, created by sculptor Mark Cline, where fibreglass dinosaurs fight Civil War soldiers in an invented 1864 campaign.

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Site-level location · 37.6262° N, 79.5442° W

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Dinosaurs fight in the Civil War here, and the park's creator says that is the joke. Dinosaur Kingdom II is a walking attraction on U.S. 11 at Natural Bridge, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, built around the premise that Union soldiers used living dinosaurs as weapons in 1864.

It is the work of Mark Cline, who West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported in 2020 "created, owns and operates" the park. Cline settled in Natural Bridge in 1982 and set up Enchanted Studios there to make fibreglass sculptures for a run of attractions, including the first and second Dinosaur Kingdoms, a Haunted Monster Museum and Foamhenge, a life-sized foam copy of Stonehenge. According to the same report, the park grew out of a one-acre scene of dinosaurs fighting soldiers that he built to entertain people queuing for the monster museum.

The broadcaster described a tour that begins with a train car and a spinning tunnel leading to Extinction Junction, a small town with a tilted house and mechanical slime monsters, before 16 acres of woodland where fibreglass dinosaurs face soldiers. The park's own site lists these scenes: Stonewall Jackson battling a spinosaurus, Abraham Lincoln after lassoing a pteranodon that is chewing the Gettysburg Address, and a stegosaurus being milked.

Cline told the broadcaster that he sometimes hears from people upset by the Civil War imagery. His answer: "This park is ridiculous. It's meant to be ridiculous. But isn't that what war is? War is ridiculous."

The park is seasonal. A Richmond Family Magazine roundup of Virginia dinosaur outings, published in July 2025, listed it, and the park's own website carries a 2026 season notice.

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A wooded walking attraction with dinosaur sculptures, Civil War scenes and a small themed town, run seasonally by the operator, whose site carries a 2026 season notice and a calendar of operating days. It is a paid, private business.

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On S. Lee Highway (U.S. 11) at Natural Bridge, Virginia. Private business; seasonal, with operating days on the operator's schedule page.

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From 2001 to 2007, sculptor Mark Cline placed roughly a dozen fiberglass dinosaur figures around Glasgow, Virginia as an April Fool's Day prank; most were later moved to become part of Cline's nearby Dinosaur Kingdom (now Dinosaur Kingdom II) at Natural Bridge. One dinosaur, however, was never relocated and remains standing in Glasgow as a local landmark -- surviving damage (including losing its head) from a 2020 windstorm, after which the town saved and restored it.

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