The Dinosaur Field Station will become our base of operations during the summer of 2010.  It will have a giftshop and museum area, a small accessible prep lab, and a small campground facility with some camping cabins for our guests. The best part about this project is that we will finally be able to offer tours our fossil prep lab. Here our guests will be able to see original dinosaur bones being prepared by our skilled technicians and see fossils as they come in from the field every night.

 

We will be building this facility slowly over the next several years, but the main 1,200 square ft. building is expected to be ready by June or July 2010. Right now we are considering various lots for the April/May construction, but have not settled on one just yet. We are still expecting to be in the Belle Fourche area for guests traveling to the northern Black Hills.

 

We will update this page as things progress. Over the next few months we will be able to determine where the new facility will be, upload maps to the location, and tell whether or not we will have lodging available for our tour guests this summer. For now, dinosaur diggers planning on scheduling a tour in June should probably look to the various other lodging options around Belle Fourche. These include the "Americinn" (for guests looking for deluxe accomodations including a pool), the "Motel 6", "The Bunkhouse" (formerly the Raptors Nest), the "Ace Motel" and "Sunset Motel".