Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum

Dinosaur State Park

2009-06-09 00:00:00

Watch your step at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill. You may be standing where a Dilophosaurus once stood. The Park features one of the largest dinosaur track sites in North America as well as interactive displays and life-size dioramas depicting what...

Connecticut Closeup of Rocky Hill

2010-06-14 00:00:00

HOW IT GOT ITS NAME: From a ridge in the northeast section of town which is now Rocky Hill Quarry Park. ORIGINS: Settled in 1650 as part of Wethersfield. The "lower community," later known as Stepney Parish, was incorporated as a separate town in 1843....

Step In The Footrprints Of Pre-history At The Dinosaur State Park

2009-02-04 00:00:00

Two years after the accidental discovery of 2,000 dinosaur tracks on an excavation site, the Dinosaur State Park was opened in 1968. 500 of those tracks are now on display within the Exhibit Center's geodesic dome. In addition to some very large...

Dividend Park, Rocky Hill

2008-05-11 00:00:00

Some parks are filled with playscapes, playing fields or picnic pavilions. Dividend Park in Rocky Hill is not one of those places. It's more of an archaeological museum — a tribute to the town's storied industrial past. The town park, designated...

Quinnipiac River Gorge Trail Offers Beauty, History

2008-07-27 00:00:00

So maybe you aren't looking to tackle the 50-mile Air Line multiuse trail as it winds from East Hampton to Putnam. Or even the 4.5-mile Windsor Locks Canal Trail that takes visitors from Windsor Locks to Suffield. Beginners to the multiuse trail may be...

State Parks

2008-07-23 00:00:00

State Park Guide Despite its small size, the Nutmeg State still has plenty of places to hike, swim, fish-- and much more! Ashley Balogh Fox 61's Daytrippers are providing you with a one-stop guide to our great state parks! American Legion/ Peoples...

Hartford/Central Connecticut

2002-09-05 09:07:56

HARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City � Connecticut's state capital � is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...

When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth . . .

2001-03-22 00:00:00

On a late August day in 1966, bulldozer operator Edward McCarthy was excavating a site for a new state building off West Street in Rocky Hill. Turning over a slab of sandstone, he was taken aback. There in front of him were six large, three-toed fossil...

Footprints left 200 million years ago are preserved in sandstone under the dome of the Dinosaur State Park Exhibit Center in Rocky Hill. The tracks were uncovered by a bulldozer working on a state construction project in 1966.

2013-04-09 11:52:07

Funny story: In 1968, on West Street in Rocky Hill, 2,000 dinosaur tracks were discovered during preparatory excavation for what was going to be a new state building. Five hundred of those tracks remain today at the Dinosaur State Park, in a geodesic dome.

2011-08-30 12:24:16

Last year was the 16th celebration of the discovery of dinosaur tracks that occurred 46 years ago at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill. There were games, crafts, educational programs, prizes, live music and live animal shows.

2011-07-11 08:23:46