Deep in a quarry in Culpeper, there are real dinosaur footprints, leftover from more than 215 million years ago. And you get the chance to see them once a year.
DinoWalk Tickets
The annual DinoWalk event, hosted by the Museum of Culpeper History and Luck Stone Quarry, allows visitors into the quarry to see the prints. This year’s event runs May 2 to 3, and tickets go on sale for the general public April 12.
Vehicle passes are $50 and provide access for one vehicle and all of its occupants. Vehicles cannot be larger than a 15-passenger van. Tickets open to the public at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 12, for the May 3 DinoWalk. (Museum members had exclusive access to tickets for the May 2 event.)
Don’t wait to get your pass! According to the Museum of Culpeper History, the event is in high demand and tickets sell out quickly every year.
DinoWalk History
According to the museum’s website, dinosaurs roamed the area during the Triassic Period. Footprints from the creatures were discovered at the bottom of the quarry in 1989.
According to Luck Stone, there are over 2,000 individual dinosaur tracks that form lines across a 6-acre rock bed. The prints are thought to have come from dinosaurs including the aetosaur, the coelophysis, and the phytosaur.
Since Luck Stone is a privately owned, fully operational quarry, the prints aren’t typically publicly accessible. The museum began hosting the annual DinoWalk event in 2015 “to grant visitors access to one of the largest collections of dinosaur tracks in North America.”
Visitors will arrive to the quarry in their vehicles and will be escorted to the dinosaur track site at the base of the quarry. From there, they can get out and explore the tracks and participate in DinoWalk activities until the end of their scheduled time slot.
Tour times on May 3 are every hour from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Luck Stone Quarry: 18244 Germanna Hwy., Culpeper
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