There are quite a few epic National Parks near Austin, Texas! The Lone Star State is packed full of epic national park sites. From National Parks to National Monuments and Historic Sites there is ...

Supporters of the Waco Mammoth National Monument are celebrating 10 years since it became part of the National Park Service and 47 years since the first fossil find at the site, with special ...

One must-see destination in Central Texas is Waco Mammoth National Monument, where you see fossils where the mammoths died thousands of years ago.

On Sept. 15, Art Castillo was hiking Waco’s Cotton Belt Trail when he found a partial mammoth tooth in a creek. He brought the tooth to the Waco Mammoth National Monument and donated it to the ...

A Texas man found a prehistoric tooth of a woolly mammoth in a creek by a hiking trail near Waco. The ancient find could be 50,000 years old.

Castillo decided to donate it to the Waco Mammoth National Monument “for kids and visitors to see for many years to come.” Some told him he should sell it, but Castillo wasn’t interested.

Castillo discovered the tooth while exploring the Cotton Belt Trail off Highway 84 in Waco. Quickly realizing what he had found, Castillo verified the fossil with the Waco Mammoth National Monument.

The five-acre Waco Mammoth National Monument is the product of an unusual partnership between the City of Waco and the National Park Service.

Raegan King, site manager at the Waco Mammoth National Monument, said tour guides at the site now present both flooding and drought as a possible cause of the mammoths’ deaths.

Starting this weekend, the Waco Mammoth National Monument will be open seven days a week.