Dinosaur Land (50+ dinosaur statues)

White Post, Virginia, United States

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Dinosaur Land is a walk-through roadside park at White Post, Virginia, with more than 50 handmade dinosaur and prehistoric-creature statues. Joe Geraci opened it around 1963 as a gift shop; about 35 of the statues are early fiberglass originals.

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Dinosaur Land in White Post, Virginia, has been a roadside park where older hand-built fiberglass dinosaurs stand beside newer ones, so the changing ideas of what dinosaurs looked like can be seen side by side.

According to Roadtrippers in 2019, Joe Geraci opened a gift shop and restaurant on the corner of Routes 277 and 522 in 1963. At a trade show in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he admired the handmade fiberglass dinosaurs of Jim Sidwell, which had stood on putt-putt courses along the East Coast, and bought five to attract customers. He renamed the attraction Dinosaur Land in 1967. His grandson told Roadtrippers the reason for dinosaurs was simple: money, because dinosaurs were a novelty at the time.

Roadtrippers says Sidwell made each figure by covering a wooden frame with wire mesh and fiberglass, and that about 35 of the statues on display are his originals. The rest, it says, are newer works by Mark Cline. The park has more than 50 statues, and not all of them are dinosaurs: Roadtrippers also lists a King Kong-style ape, a shark, an octopus and a king cobra. A woolly mammoth once had a moving trunk and fur, but the park removed the animation after the trunk was stolen. Figures of Dracula and the Mummy were taken out as too frightening for small children.

The park's website lists admission of $7 for ages 2 to 10 and $9 for ages 11 and up, with children under 2 free. Hours change with the season and the park has listed Thursday closures late in the year, so check its website before travelling.

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An outdoor, walk-through park of more than 50 statues, with a gift shop. The park's website lists admission of $7 for ages 2 to 10 and $9 for ages 11 and up; under 2 free. Hours vary by season; check the park's website.

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Dinosaur Land is a paid-entry attraction at 3848 Stonewall Jackson Highway, White Post, Virginia, near the junction of Routes 277 and 522. Roadtrippers reported in 2019 that visitors are asked not to touch or climb the statues and that pets are not allowed.

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