Orienteering is a woods navigation sport wherein participants use map and compass or GPS to navigate an established course. The trail is open daily from dawn to dusk. This half-mile paved trail meanders along Big Bone Creek past interpretive panels that impart the prehistoric drama that unfolded around the salt/sulfur springs during the last Ice Age. The Discovery Trail begins at the Megafauna diorama pit, just behind the Visitor’s Center. The bison herd today recalls the park’s prehistoric past and are our only living mammalian link to the Ice Age. Hunted to near extinction, the last of the wild bison was seen in Kentucky around 1800. Great bison herds once roamed this area and provided food, clothing and shelter for the American Indians and pioneers. The bison is the largest of all North American land mammals. Owing to weather conditions, visitors may occasionally have to hunt for them in the wooded lots that provide shelter and shade. The bison are perpetually viewable every day of the year. For more information and scheduling, please contact the park at (859) 384-3522.
Field trips and outreach programs may have a small fee. Programs can be presented to adults as well. Park Interpreters can also bring programs to your classroom, school, or organization to enrich any curriculum. Your group will experience fun programs and exploration in an outdoor setting. Engage your class, youth group, home school group, or scout troop through a field trip to the park.
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Admission to the park as well as the Museum & Visitor Center is free to all visitors.īig Bone Lick is the perfect place to get hands-on lessons in history, science, and environmental education. Park grounds close at dark daily, year-round. We encourage you to plan a visit to Big Bone Lick soon to see our exciting new displays on paleontology, Ordovician geology, Ice Age mammals, Native American history, the chronology of science at Big Bone, and ongoing research currently underway at the park. Work on the final phase of exhibit installation is now complete. Discover Salt Springs along the Big Bone Creek trail.īig Bone Lick’s museum exhibits are fresh and new! The park, in cooperation with the Friends of Big Bone and the Cincinnati Museum Center, worked together to create and produce all new exhibits for the park’s Visitor Center.
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