“They're alive and They're Hungry!”
A giant Tyrannosaurus Rex stands alongside the Interstate outside of Cave City, Kentucky, letting visitors and passersby know that Dinosaur World is not far. An outdoor museum of prehistoric animals, Dinosaur World Kentucky helped this spot along I-65 earn the title of "best exit" by Southern Living magazine.Tourists walk along a trail that winds its way through the forest and watch for various life-sized dinosaurs that are scattered throughout the park. More than 100 dinosaurs, each with an explanatory sign, can be found here. The designers of Dinosaur World Kentucky - this is just one of three such parks in the United States, with others in Glen Rose, Texas, and Plant City, Florida - have also filled the grounds with faux dinosaur eggs and raptor claws.The park also has a playground and a fossil dig for kids. Parents and older children can relax in a covered picnic area while the youngest ones dig for authentic fossils. There's also a gift shop that offers a selection of eggs, fossils, educational materials, toys, books, and more.This park, and the two others like it, is the brainchild of Swedish businessman Christer Svensson, who moved to the United States in the early '90s with his family and purchased a former alligator farm in Florida to create the first Dinosaur World. Svensson has been in the entertainment business for more than 30 years and he knew a winning idea as soon as he had it. All of the dinosaurs models are made on-site by employees of the parks and measure up to eight feet long. They're constructed using Fiberglas, steel, and concrete.
Not worth the price to our family. We paid $50 for 2 kids and 2 adults. There is a small neat museum and the dinosaur walk was pretty cool but then you are done. We spent maybe an hour here. Would've done the fossil digs but they only do them every 90min. We had just missed one when we got there and we weren't going to wait another 45min doing nothing. Cute place, just way overpriced for what it was.
it was pretty interesting. the fossil dig was a little too juvenile for my 10 and 12 year old. but a well kept place and cool to see so many life size dinosaur
What a great place!! The people working there were super nice and it was a great experience! My 5 year old loved it!!
4 year daughter loved it definitely a good stop for little ones
Great place kids loved it!
We’ve stopped in previous years and the boys loved it. I was surprised by how much they still enjoyed taking pictures and posing with the few that you could get on.
Dog friendly and allows RVs to park! Wonderful fun!
Cute place worth the stop. My boys were a little too old at 12 and 14, but they would have loved it when they were 10 and younger. As it was, we had a nice walk through the woods with the cool dinosaurs that broke up our long drive.
Kids got a kick out of it
Dog friendly! We loved the paved trail beneath a canopy of trees where life sized dinosaur statues stood in the under growth. There were dozens of dinosaurs, a different species around every turn. The place is kitschy to be sure and the statues were not museum quality but the walk and wonder of it all was great fun. 2 people cost $30.
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Dinosaur World
Hours
- Sun - Sat: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
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