Secaucus Dinosaur Park Opens with a Roar
The 20-acre park opens Saturday in Secaucus.
New Jersey is often referred to as a state that has everything. Miles of ocean shoreline, mountains, cities and now, dinosaurs. Saturday is the opening day of Field Station: Dinosaurs, a 20-acre outdoor educational park filled with 31 animatronic dinosaurs, located next to Laurel Hill park in Secaucus. As visitors walk an outdoor trail set up to look like an expedition site, they come across moving, breathing and roaring dinosaurs towering before them. All of the dinosaurs were created to scale, according to Jason P. Schein, assistant curator of natural history for the New Jersey State Museum. However, some aspects of dinosaur re-creation are more difficult, such as skin color and vocal sounds, he said. New Jersey has actually been a …
Lissette
6:13 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
We went there saturday. And we had a great time, my two year old boy loved it. :-) more ›