In plain view from the baseball stadium where we spent a lot of our time in Rapid City was a giant dinosaur atop a mountain. With a short drive straight up you will fin yourself ontop of this mountain looking down on the city. There are seven life-size concrete replicas of dinosaurs placed in a park-like setting. The brontosaurus is 80 foot long and 28 foot high and can be seen from most places in the city. The exhibits are lighted until 10:00pm. Built in the early 1930s.
The park was built as a WPA project(Works Project Administration) in 1936 by paleontologist C.C. O’Hara. O'Hara, a retired professor, was a dinosaur enthusiast, and had even helped in uncovering many dino digs in the Badlands. He saw Rapid City taking shape as a tourist town, and wanted to help bring some more light (along with Mount Rushmore) to Rapid City. So he went to work on the concrete monsters (that actually are quite unimposing and friendly looking). This is a fun and free adventure complete with gift shop in this prehistoric park!
From journal A Touristy Tour Through Rapid City