Attractions

We Dig Big!

The Mammoth Site is an indoor active paleontological dig site and accredited museum in the southern Black Hills that’s fun for the whole family. Travel back in time as you walk the edges of the sinkhole where over 60 mammoths (58 Columbian, 3 woolly) and at least 87 other species became trapped more than 140,000 years ago and are now unearthed during the summer dig season by our team of paleontologists. Watch as fossils are prepared and curated at the world’s largest mammoth research facility and one of the top fossil interpretive sites in North America, tour our exhibit hall and learn through play with our augmented reality (AR) sandbox and stream table.