Weighing as much as twenty thousand pounds and standing up to fourteen feet, the Columbian mammoths once roamed the land that is now the state of Texas thousands of years in the past. The Waco Mammoth National Monument preserves the fossil specimens that represent not only the first, but only recorded evidence of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths from the Ice Age. Guided tours of the Waco Mammoth National Monument’s Dig Shelter start at the Welcome Center before heading three hundred yards to the Dig site. These tours are available every thirty minutes and last around forty-five to sixty minutes.

Waco Mammoth, 6220 Steinbeck Bend Dr, Waco, TX 76708, Phone: 254-750-7946

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