Waco Mammoth National Monument Welcome Center, National Park Service visitor center in Waco, United States.
The Waco Mammoth National Monument Welcome Center is a National Park Service visitor facility in Texas dedicated to Columbian mammoths. It displays fossils and explains the excavation methods used to uncover these ancient remains preserved in the ground.
The site was discovered in 1978 and holds fossilized remains of 24 Columbian mammoths from the late ice age. These findings led to its designation as a national monument in 2015.
The center helps visitors understand how mammoths shaped human knowledge of prehistoric Texas. Exhibits connect these ancient animals to the region's deep past in ways that feel tangible and real.
The center is located on Steinbeck Bend Drive and welcomes visitors daily. Tours are offered without advance reservation, so you can arrive and join whenever it suits your schedule.
The center preserves fossils from a prehistoric mammoth herd in their original location where they were found. This is the only known site in North America where such a grouping of young mammoths remains fossilized together in place.
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