Waco NM

                  

A Mammoth-Sized Find: 

Standing as tall as 14 feet and weighing 20,000 pounds, Columbian mammoths roamed across what is present-day Texas thousands of years ago. Today, the fossil specimens represent the nation's first and only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of ice age Columbian mammoths.

20 Jan 2022

This a smaller unit and we started at the small Visitor Center where we got our tickets for the dig site. Due to COVID protocols they were not conducting Ranger led tours of the dig site, the tour is self-guided. The Visitor Center had no exhibits or movie but lots of souvenirs. We headed down to the dig site and spent 30 minutes taking in all the remaining fossils. Many have now been removed to preserve them off site. There were remains of six or seven Mammoths remaining at the covered dig site. There have been over twenty-three Mammoths found so far but much digging remains to be done. This was a fun and educational site to take in and we feel it can be covered in a couple of hours or less.

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Our 151st NPS Unit