St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site At Johnson Farm

Great place to bring kids. The very well preserved dinosaur tracks are amazing to see up front. Well worth the visit. Entry fee is $ 6 per adult and free for under 3.

I wouldn’t even give this place 1 star. I want my money back. First the lady as I walked in realllly wanted to be there (sarcasm); I love dinosaurs but this place was lame. I’m mad I even wasted my time. All of 10 minutes to walk through. Won’t be back. Not much to look at and not much to read.

A wonderful and educational place for children and adults. Amazing tracks and history. Kids can see a cute educational cartoon and play afterwards making dinosaurs out of paper.

Love this place! We have been taking the kids there for years. they love it! We always enjoy our visits there.
So great that the Johnsons chose to do a museum. What a great addition to the community!
Take a gander at the dinosaurs– you will have a blast!

Fun for the kids! Some cool tracks and information on display. They also have a little hands on room as well as an outdoor area for the kids to enjoy finding Dino fossils and just learning more about dinosaurs.
I’ve been to Dino museums and exhibits that are way bigger and a lot more cooler, but for what it is, it’s not bad at all. So you don’t get disappointed when you get there, just remember, this particular place has its main focus on Dino tracts. Foot prints, water and mud tracts, things like that. Don’t go there expecting to see T-​Rex or Triceratops.
All in all, ’twas a good and inexpensive stop on a mini road trip from Vegas to Utah.

AMAZING!
Ok, so, when we went to Utah my dad really wanted to take my brother and I somewhere «educational.» This was our first stop, and it was great. The various fossils were super cool to look at, and I loved that they had a diagram showing you what each thing on the fossil was — I almost missed a couple of neat things before I read the plaques.
The video at the beginning is kind of long, but it explained the site really well. The little room off to the side was also interesting, and had origami that my brother and I attempted.
Overall, it’s not a huge place and it took us about an hour to scour everything. I think it’s a good place to take younger children, and interested teenagers (like myself). Just knowing that I was at a site where dinosaurs had been was a crazy feeling. I’m really glad we stopped here, and I definitely learned a thing or two!

You don’t need to have children to get excited about the dinosaur tracks on display at this museum. We had an excellent docent who gave us a full tour with a vey thorough explanation about absolutely everything. Learned a lot that I can take back to the classroom come September. A must see!

Okay so I have to give this one five stars because that is what my son would do. Let’s get real, I did not mosey on to this place for me or my wife. This was solely a visit due to my son, and he had a ball. The price is not that bad $ 15 for everyone (2 adults, 1 6 year old, and 1 3 year old — under 4 is free). The museum is not huge, but there is some pretty interesting exhibits. The docent who explained a major part of the exhibit to my son, was very good and explained it well to my son who has the same attention span as a squirrel. There is a neat little play area outside and a cool gift shop. Total we spent about $ 40 there, including the admission, and my son had a ball. If you are in the area and have a child who love dinosaurs this is definitely a good place to visit.

Great fossil site, great interpretation, nice gift shop. The best part is the price: $ 6 adults /​$ 3 kids. Definitely worth the stop.

I really wasn’t all that impressed with this place. They had a whole bunch of rocks with imprints on it and mostly replicas of Dino stuff.
It gets an «ehh» in my book.

A lot of the same thing, but, it’s really cool. The building is filled with piece after piece of rock with footprints, mud cracks, and all sorts of things. Some are easy to make out, others take some bit of imagination.
If you’re passing through St. George and want to see some local character, I highly recommend to drop by and see the footprints. This is an easy way to see a TON of footprints in one area and some of the science behind them if you can’t make it out to one of the remote sites in the middle of nowhere.

This museum is well-​designed for the compact space it’s located in. There’s a short movie followed by a self guided tour. Other reviewers hinted at having a docent lead you through, but if you don’t mind reading, the displays are well thought out so that you read and learn a little then get to see your learning up close in the fossil specimen or mold/​cast. The tour concludes with a spectacular, albeit, horizontal expanse of (treated?) rock upon which prehistoric life and death melodrama more than likely occurred. It may not be for everyone-​my eight year old kept tugging at my sleeves-​but it’s well worth the admission price and a place I don’t mind my $$ going to in support.

If you love geology and dinosaurs this is the place for you. Admission is $ 6 for adult. This is a discovery site not a museum. You can watch a 6 mins video then walk the area. I highly recommend going with a tour guide which is free as you learn a lot more. If you are walking by yourself there not much signage to what you are looking at and it’s very small museum. There is an interactive area for children inside the museum includes spaces to do dinosaur stencils and rubbings, as well as play with dinosaur. They are also putting an addition which is a lab.
We were there yesterday, Saturday Nov 22^nd. The guide Karen was really nice and informative and we learned a lot of history about the geology and dinosaurs. Thousands of tracks made by dinosaurs and other animals that have now been recognized or recovered from the numerous layers of sandstone and mudstone that formed almost 200 million years ago on the shores of an ancient lake in the Vicinity.

Before we got out of the car, a warning. «Okay, we know that they’re going to say that these bones are 60 million years old. We know that’s not true, but we need to keep it to ourselves until we are back inside this car.»
So began our trip to the dinosaur museum. If you’re looking for a large museum — this is not it. It is a dig site with a building atop of it.
For $ 6/​adult & $ 3/​kid, you get to watch a movie about the dig site, then a docent will lead you around the perimeter, explaining the various tracks & bones.
Unfortunately, our visit was cut short. After the docent led tour, we wanted to read all the placards. Instead, some women had their toddlers running wild along with a crying baby with croup. Please don’t bring kids under the age of 5. They’ll be bored and ruin it for everyone else.
This is a place I doubt I’d come back to, simply because once you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it.

My boys love dinosaurs so I knew that we had to stop here during our trip.
If you have smaller ones, then save your money, even though the price you pay to tour the place is very little.
My children were bored in a matter of minutes, they enjoyed the movie, the dino water bottles, and the activity room they have, that’s about it.
The majority of slabs they have at the site are replicas, not the real deal.
You can walk the entire site in about 5 minutes. I think it would be better for those that have older children who can read since there is a lot of reading to do when walking around.

So glad we stopped here when driving through. Very well done museum that’s interactive and fun for the kids. Air conditioned part and also an outdoor part. The site was found by the property owner when excavating some land in 2000. Turns out to be a very significant dinosaur find!

My husband and I are dinosaur lovers. We have visited many, many dinosaur museums in our life and this is easily one of our favorites. We raised two boys who are also dinosaur lovers and I teach kindergarten so I am going to add that I don’t think little ones’ attention will be kept too long here. We overheard one young boy asking if they could PLEASE leave NOW! That being said, if you are a dinosaur lover and a grown up don’t miss this site!
We learned so much about how dinosaur tracks were preserved, which kind of tracks we were looking at and which kind of dinosaur made those tracks. Very few of their displays are behind glass, most you can get very close to. They just ask you not to touch.
A plus for us was that the lighting in the discovery site was perfect for photographing. Our pictures turned out amazing.
We spent 2 hours at the site and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Such a deal at $ 6 admission.

This was probably my favorite dinosaur and/​or museum experience that I have ever had. Take my advise and get the guided tour. You get so much more information and the museum really has a lot more to discover. Without the tour you’d never know or realize so many of the little things.
It was a fun educational experience and really inexpensive entertainment.

Should you find yourself in Southern Utah stop, drive the 10 extra minutes it takes to go from the 10 to here and go in. Seriously.
This place was one of my favorite stops on the drive to Zion. No, it’s not the biggest dino place, doesn’t have the fossils of a museum or the same level of scientific fact but unlike most places, what you’re seeing is actually from here. For that reason alone, it’s really worth a visit.
At $ 5 a hit, it’s far lower cost than most other tourist stops, it’s easy to get to, not a very long detour from the road (plus costco gas & lunch is just up the road).
Tip: The staff is very friendly and will gladly tell you about other local places to see dino tracks being actively unearthed (ask for a map).

On my way back to Las Vegas from a state hop into Utah, I saw a highway sign directing me here. I anticipated seeing a site on dinosour footprints on the scale of a state park. Approximately 2.1 miles further south alongside Utah Route 212, I saw a small building.
It was a tough decision whether I should pay the $ 6 or drive up to Snow Mountain State Park, for a 2-​hour hike. I had driven here anticipating an outdoor exhibit. The tour guide at the entrance was friendly and enthusiastic. Maybe this would be one more example of a small place shining. So, I checked my name on the check in board, paid the $ 6 entrance fee, saw the complimentary movie, then toured the museum.
Regardless that I am not fascinated by dinosaur foot prints, the tour guide and self guided tour exhibits kept my interest for a good while.