Entry No. 40 — the Dallas file — filed under: creationism
Creation Evidence Museum
“people and T. rex neighbors walked the same mud 6,000 years ago”
A proudly earnest young-Earth creationist museum where stone slabs displaying alleged human footprints pressed alongside genuine Cretaceous dinosaur tracks are presented as proof that people and T. rex neighbors walked the same mud 6,000 years ago. Founded in 1984 by TV preacher and paleontologist-by-self-proclamation Carl Baugh, it's one of the most sincerely weird roadside museums in Texas.
The move: Spend a Wednesday–Saturday afternoon touring the exhibits and examining the contested "man tracks" in the Paluxy River limestone slabs — then cross over to Dinosaur Valley State Park (minutes away) to see the real, undisputed sauropod and theropod tracks in the riverbed, making for a gloriously surreal side-by-side contrast of creationist and scientific takes on the same fossil evidence.
📍 Before you go This is a true day trip from the metroplex — roughly 90 minutes southwest of DFW, out on a rural farm-to-market road, so it's a small, easy-to-miss building you'll want to map carefully before you go; parking is on-site. The museum itself is indoors and weather-proof, but it keeps limited days each week, so confirm it's actually open before committing the drive. Treat the whole of Glen Rose as the outing: the 1893 courthouse square has antique shops and cafés, Big Rocks Park sits on the Paluxy River, and the drive-through safari at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is close by. Spring or fall dodges the brutal Texas summer heat for the outdoor stops.
- 📍 Glen Rose
- 💸 $
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 3102 FM 205, Glen Rose, TX 76043
Hours: Mined 2026-06-07 — confirm current hours before you go.
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Further reading: Yelp · Tripadvisor · Official site
last checked: 2026-06-07