July 27, 2011
Dinosaur Sighting: Wall Drug
A T. rex sighting in South Dakota. Photo by Laura Helmuth
Wall Drug in South Dakota is the ultimate roadside attraction. It’s advertised on goofy billboards all along Interstate 90, features a camel-size jackalope, sells all kinds of trinkets, has a gold-panning operation for kids and is decorated in full high-country kitsch. If you make it past the animatronic cowboy singers and the ice cream parlor and the teepee and the Western wear shop, be sure to stop and admire the T. rex looming out of a patch of palm fronds. Every ten minutes or so, the T. rex comes to life: It shakes its head, snaps its jaws menacingly and roars (or, as commenter Belle put it best, RAWRs) as dry-ice steam spews from the display.
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What a coincidence! I’ve been to Wall Drug! Have quite an extensive fossil shop there, too, and I’ve seen that dinosaur before!