Mountainburg, Arkansas: Climb-Thru Concrete Dinosaurs
Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and T-rex -- designed with hollow sections for kids to climb through. Home-built by Douglas W. Birchfield in 1980. T-rex is 14 feet tall, Brontosaurus is 20 feet long; both were fenced-off by the early 2020s. Triceratops is still open to climb through.
Mountainburg City Park
- Address:
- 201 US 71, Mountainburg, AR
- Directions:
- Mountainburg City Park. West side of US Hwy 71, on both sides of a culvert next to the fire department.
- Admission:
- Free
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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The dinosaurs have been fenced off. I guess they suffered too much climbing damage.
[Jill Simpson, 09/06/2023]
Two of the dinosaurs have been fenced in so that they don't wander off. The triceratops is still free range, though.
[Todd Kent, 03/25/2023]
Pretty park. Weird cement dinosaurs.
[Vance Erwin, 11/11/2016]Dinosaurs have stood in an old fashioned children's playground since 1980 (one was made earlier for a private residence, and probably moved here later). Creator Douglas Birchfield designed ladders onto the brontosaurus and triceratops so kids could climb into the hollow interiors.
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The T-rex and Brontosaurus have been fenced off, but the Triceratops is still open to climb through.