Big Rocks Park

Big Rocks Park is a free city park where the Paluxy River has sculpted massive Cretaceous limestone boulders into a natural playground of rounded caves, cracks, and wading pools right at the river's edge. Glen Rose — the self-styled "Dinosaur Capital of Texas" — sits on these same fossil-bearing limestone formations, making every rock you scramble over a piece of the deep past.

The move: Pack sandwiches and water shoes, then spend an afternoon hopping and scrambling across the giant limestone boulders while wading through the shallow, spring-fed Paluxy — after, walk the Riverwalk upstream to Heritage Park and poke around the dinosaur tracks the river keeps exposing in the riverbed.

• 📍 Glen Rose
• 💸 Free
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: 1014 SW Barnard St, Glen Rose, TX 76043

Hours: Mined 2026-06-07 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Verified 2026-06-07.